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 fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lorimer, Geroge

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Eliot, George

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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.

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

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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 fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Proverb, English

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Collins, John Churton

29.

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

Freehill, Maurice

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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Steele, Sir Richard

35.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.