A Quote by Abdul Kalam

A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

Abdul Kalam

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Abdul Kalam
Indian - President
October 15, 1931 - July 27, 2015

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

Ambrose Bierce

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Criss Jami

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Harold MacMillan

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

Otto Weininger

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

Zora Neale Hurston

Only a genius can play a fool.

Michael Rapaport

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Chanakya

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

William Shakespeare

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

J. G. Ballard

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

Christopher Moore

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

Virginia Woolf

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

J. K. Rowling

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.