Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Boileau, Nicholas

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Yiddish

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Italian

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Confucius

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, African

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Brown, Gene

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