Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Collins, John Churton

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

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

Billings, Josh

5.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

6.

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

7.

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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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

9.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

12.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

13.

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

14.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

15.

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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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

17.

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

Mizner, Wilson

18.

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

19.

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

Balzac, Honore De

20.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

21.

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

Ellis, Havelock

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

24.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

25.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

26.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Proverb, Welsh

32.

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

33.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

38.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

39.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Proverb, Jewish

42.

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

Eliot, George

43.

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

44.

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

Smith, Wes

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

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

Freehill, Maurice

47.

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