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Fools and foolishness

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
- Freehill, Maurice
Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Butler, Samuel

2.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Boileau, Nicholas

3.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Ellis, Havelock

4.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Mizner, Wilson

5.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Lorimer, Geroge

6.
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

7.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

8.
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

9.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Billings, Josh

10.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Proverb, Spanish

11.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish

12.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Goldsmith, Oliver

13.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Collins, John Churton

14.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Shaw, George Bernard

15.
The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
Proverb, Italian

16.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
Sutro, Alfred

17.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.
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

19.
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

20.
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
Proverb, Yiddish

21.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Lincoln, Abraham

22.
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
Proverb, English

23.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Billings, Josh

24.
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
Grumet, Gerald W.

25.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca

26.
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.

27.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Steele, Sir Richard

28.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Proverb, Welsh

29.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]
Shakespeare, William

30.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Proverb, African

31.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Balzac, Honore De

32.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Franklin, Benjamin

33.
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

34.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Bernstein, Al

35.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Freehill, Maurice

36.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Cervantes, Miguel De

37.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fielding, Henry

38.
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Ruckett

39.
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

40.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

41.
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.

42.
Fools are without number.
Erasmus, Desiderius

43.
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

44.
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
Russell, Bertrand

45.
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

46.
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

47.
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Luther, Martin

48.
Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Franklin, Benjamin

49.
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

50.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


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