Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Proverb, African

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Luther, Martin

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Brown, Gene

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Collins, John Churton

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Horace

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.