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

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Eliot, George

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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

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

Confucius

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

Brown, Gene

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

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

Smith, Wes

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Collins, John Churton

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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

43.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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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.