No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

- Anton Chekhov

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

- Ben Stein

Fortune, that favors fools.

- Ben Jonson

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

- Abraham Cahan

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

- Alcuin

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

- Angela Carter

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

- Anacharsis

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

- Alex Trebek

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

- Alan Perlis

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

- Albert Einstein

Silence is the wit of fools.

- Anatole France

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

- Ambrose Bierce

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

- Alice Walker

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

- Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

- Alexander Pope

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

- Alexander Pope

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

- Alexander Pope

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.

- Aldous Huxley