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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 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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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 always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Proverb, African

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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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