Motivational Quotes
Fools and foolishness
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.
Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness
Fools are without number.
Erasmus, Desiderius
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Proverb, Welsh
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Goldsmith, Oliver
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Bernstein, Al
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
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Proverb, English
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
Proverb, English
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.
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
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
Russell, Bertrand
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Mizner, Wilson
Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.
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
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Brown, Gene
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Boileau, Nicholas
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
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Proverb, Spanish
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Collins, John Churton
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Shadwell, Thomas
The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
Proverb, Italian
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Luther, Martin
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Korda, Michael
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Bioleau
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
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Cervantes, Miguel De
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Ruckett
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]
Shakespeare, William
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
Proverb, Yiddish
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
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fielding, Henry
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Franklin, Benjamin
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
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas
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.
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
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
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese
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.
The fool is always beginning to live.
Proverb
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Smith, Wes
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
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Goldsmith, Oliver
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Ellis, Havelock
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
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Freehill, Maurice
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Eliot, George
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Moliere
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