Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Billings, Josh

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Freehill, Maurice

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Proverb, Spanish

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

10.

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

Luther, Martin

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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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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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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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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 fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Smith, Wes

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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 the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Eliot, George

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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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Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

32.

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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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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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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While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

Grumet, Gerald W.

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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Horace

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Proverb, English

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Confucius

47.

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

Brown, Gene

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

Lorimer, Geroge