Charlie Munger Quotes

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Only a fool can believe people are basically good

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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