Mark Helprin Quotes

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

It's easy to be an educated fool.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

Solemnity is the shield of idiots

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.