Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Brown, Gene

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

2.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

3.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

4.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, Spanish

7.

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]

Shakespeare, William

8.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

9.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Balzac, Honore De

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

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

Collins, John Churton

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

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

23.

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

Fielding, Henry

24.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

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

26.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Proverb, Welsh

29.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Sutro, Alfred

31.

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

Proverb, Jewish

32.

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

33.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Korda, Michael

37.

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

Smith, Wes

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, African

40.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

41.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

42.

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

Billings, Josh

43.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

46.

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

Brown, Gene

47.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

48.

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