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Fools and foolishness

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

- Bernstein, Al

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

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

Proverb, Yiddish

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Brown, Gene

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Billings, Josh

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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eliot, George

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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.

Billings, Josh

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

Collins, John Churton

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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

Proverb, African

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

Freehill, Maurice

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Mizner, Wilson

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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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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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Chase, Ilka

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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 fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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