Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Butler, Samuel

2.

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

Ellis, Havelock

3.

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

Billings, Josh

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

7.

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

Proverb, Spanish

8.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

9.

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

Brown, Gene

10.

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.

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

13.

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

Proverb, African

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Korda, Michael

18.

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

19.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

26.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

27.

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

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Sutro, Alfred

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

33.

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

34.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

35.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

36.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

39.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

40.

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

Collins, John Churton

41.

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

Proverb, Jewish

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Fielding, Henry

45.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

46.

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Mizner, Wilson

47.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

48.

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

49.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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

Proverb, Welsh