Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Confucius

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Billings, Josh

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Korda, Michael

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

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 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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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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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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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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 the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, African

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.