Fooled Quotes

• The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Broken Heart, Emotion, Intellect

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• whoopdie-friggin-doo, fooled you!

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.200, Scholastic Inc.

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• A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Hands, Fool

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• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Bullying, Funny Inspirational

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• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Mothers Day, Mom, Women

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• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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• He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Humour, Admire

  'L'Art poètique' canto 1, l. 232

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• In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Rights, Labor Laws

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• Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

  Kenneth Lay

  Thinking, Fool

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  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Fear, Angel

  An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

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• You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

  Ben Harper

  Mistake, Past, Differences

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• Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

  Leo Burnett

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

  Helen Rowland

  Time, Women, Half

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.86, Lulu.com

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

  Joey Skaggs

  Thinking, Fool

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Honesty

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Patience, Stupid, Ignorance

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

  Robert Teeter

  Son, People, Guy

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• Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  George W. Bush's remarks on teaching American history and civic education at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2002.

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• Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

  Julius Rosenwald

  Money, Smart, Believe

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• A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

  Edmondo De Amicis

  Love, Inspiration, Heart

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• The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

  Michael Moore

  Majority, Weapons, Madness

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