The best answer to a fool is silence.
—Leo Tolstoy
The fool fears and retreats from evil, because he does not know how to overcome it, and the wise man trusts himself, fights evil and defeats it.
—Taras Shevchenko
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
—Voltaire
The best answer to a fool is silence. Every word you speak to a fool bounces back to you. Repaying offense with offense is just putting more wood on the fire, but he who meets his offender with peace has already defeated him with peace itself.
—Leo Tolstoy
You can be intelligent without ever having read a book, but if you believe everything that’s written in books, you can’t help but be a fool.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
—Voltaire
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
—William Shakespeare
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
—Charlie Chaplin
When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud.
—Laozi
Bear in mind that God does not see as you see. These very men that the world applauds and that so many try to imitate are the very men that Christ calls fools.
—D. L. Moody
Why do you send fools to judge my work?
—Michelangelo
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
—Henry David Thoreau
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, make sure that you’re not surrounded by fools.
—Sigmund Freud
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Wise men speak because they have something to say.
Fools because they have to say something.
—Plato
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
—Cicero
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
—Ernest Hemingway
Faith will set you up above the fear of man, and enable you to rejoice in being accounted a fool for CHRIST’s sake.
—George Whitefield
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
—Plato
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
—Aristotle
It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
—Charlie Chaplin
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
—Charles Darwin
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
—William Shakespeare
Surely when we see our Lord Jesus we shall not ask Him to forgive us for our foolish over-caring, but rather that we cared so little, cared so coldly that souls are perishing for whom He died.
—Amy Carmichael
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
—Cicero
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
—Albert Einstein
Shame on us Christian people for thinking so much like worldlings and using the foolish methods of philosophy when we are dealing with the everlasting and eternal God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones