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

1.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

3.

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

Billings, Josh

4.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Fielding, Henry

5.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

6.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

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

Ellis, Havelock

8.

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

9.

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

10.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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.

13.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

14.

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

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

19.

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

Smith, Wes

20.

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

Proverb, English

21.

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

22.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Brown, Gene

24.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

25.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

28.

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

Luther, Martin

29.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

30.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

31.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

32.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

36.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

37.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many.

Rinehart, Mary Roberts

40.

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

Sutro, Alfred

41.

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

42.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

43.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

44.

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

Proverb, Welsh

45.

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