Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Horace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sutro, Alfred

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

Korda, Michael

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Confucius

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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 wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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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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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Freehill, Maurice

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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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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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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 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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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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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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