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

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Fielding, Henry

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Confucius

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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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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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Wes

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, English

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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 learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Billings, Josh

43.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau