Jonathan Stroud Quotes

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

Custom is the law of fools.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

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

Who hath no head, needes no heart.

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.