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Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

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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.

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

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

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Brown, Gene

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Luther, Martin

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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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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

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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

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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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 fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Freehill, Maurice

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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, African

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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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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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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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

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Ellis, Havelock