Pastoral Resources

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

It takes a fool to test how deep the water is with both feet.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.