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

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

Confucius

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

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

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

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

Horace

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

Collins, John Churton

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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

14.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

15.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

17.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

24.

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

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

26.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

27.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

28.

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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.

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

32.

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

33.

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

Freehill, Maurice

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brown, Gene

40.

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

Proverb, Italian

41.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Ellis, Havelock

43.

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

Balzac, Honore De

44.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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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

48.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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

Sutro, Alfred