Quotes about Fool
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
— Cicero
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." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The indissoluble link between prideful self-love, aversion to truth, self-deception and hypocrisy is one of the great themes of the Bible—for example, the drumbeat repetition that "the way of a fool is right in his own eyes" (Prov 12:15). Sinful minds therefore claim both self-rightness in terms of truth and self-righteousness in terms of goodness.
— Os Guinness
For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
— Psalm 14:1
He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.
— Philip James Bailey
No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.
— Isaiah 32:5
Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
— Proverbs 17:7
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
— Job 5:3
The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
— Ecclesiastes 4:5
A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.
— Proverbs 29:11
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
— Proverbs 10:18
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
— Oscar Wilde