Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Butler, Samuel

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

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Brown, Gene

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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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

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

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