A Quote by Mathew Knowles

Only a fool manages himself.

Mathew Knowles

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Mathew Knowles
American - Businessman
Born: January 9, 1952

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

Ambrose Bierce

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

W. Somerset Maugham

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

George Bernard Shaw

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

Gautama Buddha

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Samuel Butler

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

Franz Grillparzer

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

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

Marjorie Bowen

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

William Hazlitt

He slips . . . but manages to regroup himself.

Dan Maskell

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Gautama Buddha

Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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