Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other.

God has cared for these trees saved them from drought disease avalanches and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

When it comes to cars only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

Come come leave business to idlers and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty and pleasure my occupation and let father Time shake his glass.