Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

- Boileau, Nicholas

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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.

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Sutro, Alfred

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

Confucius

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Boileau, Nicholas

10.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, English

15.

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

Freehill, Maurice

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

22.

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.

23.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

24.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

25.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

28.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

29.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

30.

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

31.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

34.

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

Proverb, Welsh

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

36.

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

37.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Balzac, Honore De

40.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Luther, Martin

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

48.

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

Brown, Gene

49.

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

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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