A Quote by Joseph Conrad

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad
Polish - Novelist
December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

George Bernard Shaw

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Solomon

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

Solomon

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

Seneca the Younger

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Ambrose Bierce

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.

Otto von Bismarck

But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.

Rza

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

William Blake

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

T. S. Eliot

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

John Quincy Adams

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Michel de Montaigne

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

Khalil Gibran

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Henry George

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Blaise Pascal

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Akhenaton

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