A Quote by Alexander Pope

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
English - Poet
May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Plutarch

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

Graham Greene

Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

C. I. Scofield

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

E. M. Forster

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Edward Young

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

Voltaire

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Cato the Younger

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne

Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

John Henry Patterson

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.