Nelson Mandela Quotes

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves — or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Fools are not mad folks.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

Undoubtedly, to salve your conscience, you have now and then helped some miserable human being, but millions of human beings were murdered and nary a protest was heard.