Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Proverb, Yiddish

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Eliot, George

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace

10.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.

Updike, John

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Collins, John Churton

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Korda, Michael

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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

Proverb, English

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There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Gabirol, Ibn

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Balzac, Honore De

21.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Shadwell, Thomas

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He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.

Proverb, Persian

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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Frost, Robert

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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Lorimer, Geroge

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The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]

Shakespeare, William

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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.

Luther, Martin

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Heimel, Cynthia

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

Proverb, Spanish

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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Steele, Sir Richard

37.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.

Billings, Josh

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Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.

Hertzler

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That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

Sutro, Alfred

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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Proverb, Welsh

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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Butler, Samuel

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Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Brown, Gene

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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

Lewis, C. S.

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.