Vincent Bugliosi Quotes

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

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

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

The jester is brother to the sage.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.