Famous quotes containing the word fools:
“The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population—the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it’s the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it’s the fools that form the overwhelming majority.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
“Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:20.
“They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)