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Fools and foolishness

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

- Ruckett

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

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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

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

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Butler, Samuel

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

Korda, Michael

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

Luther, Martin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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A fool always finds a greater 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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What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Proverb, African

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Brown, Gene

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Horace

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

Collins, John Churton

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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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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.