Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Grumet, Gerald W.

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Korda, Michael

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, African

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

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

16.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

19.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

20.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

21.

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

Freehill, Maurice

22.

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

Proverb, English

23.

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

Proverb, Welsh

24.

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

25.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

29.

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

30.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Billings, Josh

32.

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

33.

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

Horace

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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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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

38.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

39.

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

40.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

41.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

42.

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

Proverb, Jewish

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Eliot, George

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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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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