“A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.”
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
Variant A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Canto I, l. 232
The Art of Poetry (1674)
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux30
French poet and critic 1636–1711Related quotes
“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”
Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
Act IV, sc. iii
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor
Source: undated quotes, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 12 : Renoir's remark to Vollard referring to the pre-impressionist landscape-painter Camille Corot.
“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
Source: To the Blight
“Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce— a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.”
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 16
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
F 69
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
“One is always finding out more.”
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) American-born, British-based artist
[A Chat with Mr. Whistler, January 1895, The Studio, 4, 116–121, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510019270823;view=1up;seq=132] (quote from p. 118)
1870 - 1903, A Chat with Mr. Whistler' (1895)