Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Lorimer, Geroge

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

2.

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

Mizner, Wilson

3.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

4.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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.

6.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

7.

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

Proverb, Welsh

8.

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

9.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

12.

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

Korda, Michael

13.

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 learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

Smith, Wes

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Sutro, Alfred

20.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

21.

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

Confucius

22.

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

Proverb, African

23.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

26.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

27.

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

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

30.

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

Eliot, George

31.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

32.

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

Luther, Martin

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Italian

37.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

42.

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

Horace

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

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

45.

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

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.

47.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

48.

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

Freehill, Maurice

49.

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

Collins, John Churton

50.

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