Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Billings, Josh

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

Horace

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.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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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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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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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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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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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Proverb, English

24.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

Freehill, Maurice

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

26.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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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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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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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 wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, African

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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 fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Brown, Gene