Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Brown, Gene

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

Billings, Josh

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

20.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Billings, Josh

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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