A Quote by Baltasar Gracian
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
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Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
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.
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.
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.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.
Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?
You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.
In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.
No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.
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