Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Fielding, Henry

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Confucius

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Korda, Michael

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

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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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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.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Eliot, George

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Billings, Josh