Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Mizner, Wilson

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Korda, Michael

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Smith, Wes

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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Proverb, African

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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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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

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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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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Italian

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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.

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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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

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

Proverb, English

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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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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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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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 often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Collins, John Churton

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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