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

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.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Confucius

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

Brown, Gene

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Collins, John Churton

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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 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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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 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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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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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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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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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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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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