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Fools and foolishness

Fools are without number.

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

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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

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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.

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

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

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

Sutro, Alfred

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Gene

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

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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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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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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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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, English

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

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Confucius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, African

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.