People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions... →
Walt Whitman
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Edward Young
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
Zhuangzi
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Lord Byron
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.