Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Luther, Martin

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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 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

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Brown, Gene

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Korda, Michael

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Billings, Josh

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, African

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Proverb, English

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Confucius

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Horace