A Quote by Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Thomas Fuller

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Fool Hell Man Paradise Wise Wise Man

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Thomas Fuller
English - Priest
June 19, 1608 - August 16, 1661

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

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 only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

Tom Clancy

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Anatole France

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

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

Charles Caleb Colton

I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as long as these streams continue to hold up. If this amounts to living in a fool's paradise, don't waste your time trying to explain that to the fool.

John Gierach

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

Al-Ghazali

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

Gautama Buddha

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

Frederick Salomon Perls

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

William Shakespeare

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.

Ben Hecht

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

Og Mandino

For me, Iran was paradise, and I believe it's a paradise still, but only if you don't have political problems. If you have a political problem, paradise turns into hell.