No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Only fools are positive.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Words are the money of fools.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.