Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Boileau, Nicholas

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Brown, Gene

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

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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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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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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 the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Eliot, George

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De