C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

The young men are wonderfully bright and intelligent, and the old people are a good deal behind them. Yes, yes; that is the way we talk before our beards have grown. GS48 He is the greatest fool of all who pretends to explain everything, and says he will not believe what he cannot understand. PP142 When a man has a particularly empty head, he generally sets up for a great judge, especially in religion. None so wise as the man who knows nothing. PT18 He who knows nothing is confident in everything; hence they are bullheaded beyond measure. PT19 After the miser comes the prodigal. Often men say of the spendthrift his old father was no man’s friend but his own, and now the son is no man’s enemy but his own: the fact is, the old gentleman went to hell by the lean road, and his son has made up his mind to go there by the fat. PT111 There is no fool like the man who will be a fool cost him what it may. TD85:8 Let us mind we all make a distinction between things which differ, and do not pull a house down on our heads, and then pray the Lord to console us under the trying providence. 547.5 Tomorrow is only in the fool’s almanack: it exists nowhere else. 1107.224 When we say, “I am surprised that I should have acted so unwisely,” we betray our secret pride, and confess that we thought ourselves wonderfully wise. 1536.268 Sometimes the more men know the greater fools they become; for knowledge is not wisdom, though wisdom cannot be without knowledge. Knowledge in the hands of a fool is but a means of publishing his folly. 1755.691 Mad people do not know that they have been mad till they are cured; they think that they alone are wise, and all the rest are fools. Here is another point of their resemblance to sinners, for they also think that everybody is wrong except themselves. Hear how they will abuse a pious wife as “a fool.” What hard words they will use towards a gracious daughter! How they will rail at the ministers of the gospel, and try to tear God’s Bible to pieces! Poor mad souls, they think all are mad except themselves! 2414.245 Between the ignorant man who cannot read a letter, and the learned man who is apt in all knowledge, there is small difference if they are both ignorant of Christ; indeed, the scholar’s folly is in this case the greater of the two. The learned fool generally proves himself the worst of fools, for he invents theories which would be ridiculed if they could be understood, and he brings forth speculations which, if they were judged by common sense and men were not turned into idiotic worshippers of imaginary authority, would be scouted from the universe with a hiss of derision. There are fools in colleges and fools in cottages. 3070.603