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Fools and foolishness
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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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
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
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
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
Proverb, Yiddish
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Proverb, African
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Butler, Samuel
Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.
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
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Proverb, English
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
Proverb, English
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Proverb, Welsh
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Eliot, George
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Collins, John Churton
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Smith, Wes
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.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Proverb, Spanish
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Boileau, Nicholas
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Franklin, Benjamin
Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Franklin, Benjamin
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]
Shakespeare, William
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Balzac, Honore De
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Bernstein, Al
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
Grumet, Gerald W.
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
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
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish
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
The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
Proverb, Italian
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Korda, Michael
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
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Ruckett
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
Billings, Josh
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Disraeli, Isaac
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Shadwell, Thomas
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.
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
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Cervantes, Miguel De
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Lorimer, Geroge
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Bernstein, Al
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Brown, Gene
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Luther, Martin
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
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Lincoln, Abraham
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fielding, Henry
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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