Quotes of: Fooled Keyword

One who has a clear mind can never be fooled by his senses.

The Farm of Wisdom: 25 Unforgettable Tales that Will Ignite a Wiser You!

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

Gone with the Wind

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

The Blazing World and Other Writings

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.

Cloud Atlas

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

American Gods

The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.

Jane Austen And Her Art

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

Stars Shine After Dark

Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

Stormed Fortress

If you don't believe in the things you're doing, the answer isn't fooling yourself into thinking you believe it. If you don't believe in what you're doing, then you just shouldn't be doing it.

The Mission

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

The Moon and Sixpence

An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.

Nobody's Fool

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

Any fool would not be brave Who takes no heed of this verse No heroic deed or action save Any man from Finndragon’s curse

The Legend of Finndragon's Curse

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy: Latin America in the Third Millennium

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

Soldiers' Pay

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Sweethearts

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

Someone Like You