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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eliot, George

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, African

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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 wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Brown, Gene

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Confucius

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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