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 2. A fool can ask more questions than the wisest can answer.

 3. A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes often seat everything.

 4. A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

 5. A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

 6. Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.

 7. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain -and most fools do.

 8. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

 9. Exactness is the sublimity of fools. A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.

10. Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

11. Folly is wisdom spun too fine.

12. Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

13. Greed, lust, fear, anger, misfortune, unhappiness, all are derived from foolishness. Thus, foolishness is the greatest of poisons.

14. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth? For take thy balance if thou be so wise, And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

15. He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

16. He who through the error of attachment loves his body, abides wandering in darkness, sensible and suffering the things of death, but he who realizes that the body is but the tomb of his soul, rises to immortality.

17. He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.

18. I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure he is not a knave.

19. If a fool be associated with a wise man even all his life, he will perceive the truth as little as a spoon perceives the taste of soup.

20. If an intelligent man be associated for only one minute with a wise man, he will soon perceive the truth, as the tongue perceives the taste of soup.

21. If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

22. Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star.

23. Ignorance, the product of darkness, stupefies the senses in all embodied beings, binding them by the chains of folly, indolence and lethargy.

24. In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.

25. It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man.

26. It is the characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and forget its own.

27. It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

28. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

29. No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

30. No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

31. None but a fool is always right.

32. Not to understand what is good and bad, Not to remember a kindness one has received, Not to marvel at what one has clearly perceived - These are the characteristics of a foolish man.

33. Of all thieves fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

34. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

35. Silence is the wit of fools.

36. The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise counsel.

37. The folly of one man is the fortune of another; for no man prospers so suddenly as by others' errors.

38. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

39. The fool is happy that he knows no more.

40. The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

41. The fool is not always unfortunate, nor the wise man always successful; yet never has a fool thorough enjoyment; neverwas a wise man wholly unhappy.

42. The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.

43. The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

44. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

45. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

46. The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but herein lies the difference - The follies of the fool are known to the world, but are hidden from himself; The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

47. There are many more fools in the world than there are wise men, otherwise the wise men could not exist.

48. There are more fools than wise men; and even in wise men, more folly than wisdom.

49. There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage.

50. There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous...Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

51. There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

52. Those who identify themselves with the body and have no soul-consciousness, are utterly ignorant, though they may possess University degrees. Man speaks of his glory and achievements. It is all vanity. At the bottom of it all are sex, food, indolence and ignorance.

53. Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

54. Thou Gray beard, old Wisdom, mayst boast of thy treasures; Give me with young Folly to live; I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures; But Folly has raptures to give.

55. To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.

56. Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

57. Want and sorrow are the wages that folly earns for itself, and they are generally paid.

58. What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

59. What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! A fool always finds some greater fool to admire him.

60. What lies beyond life shines not to those who are childish, or careless, or deluded by wealth. "This is the only world: there is no other," they say; and thus they go from death to death.

61. What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

62. When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.

63. Who are a little wise the best fools be.

64. Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

65. Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

66. Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.