If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
—Carl Jung
I’m ashamed to recall how often I failed to live according to my conscience and instead submitted to foolish customs and rules that everyone else accepts.
—Leo Tolstoy
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
—Thomas Edison
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
—George Washington
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
—Voltaire
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
—Nikolai Gogol