“There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (1759), edited by Robert Thyer
“There are more fools in the world than there are people.”
As quoted in One Big Fib : The Incredible Story of the Fraudulent First International Bank of Grenada (2003) by Owen Platt, p. 37
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German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797–1856Related quotes
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 4.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) French diplomat
Reported in, C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. (1917).
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”
Cato the Elder (-234–-149 BC) politician, writer and economist (0234-0149)
Plutarch's Life of Cato
Variant: Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
“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)
“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Boldness
Essays (1625)
“4867. There cannot be a more intolerable Thing than a fortunate Fool.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)