Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

- Seneca

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

2.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

3.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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

5.

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

Billings, Josh

6.

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

Confucius

7.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

10.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

11.

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

12.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

Sutro, Alfred

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

16.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

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

Proverb, African

20.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

21.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

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

23.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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.

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Korda, Michael

29.

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

Smith, Wes

30.

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

31.

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

Collins, John Churton

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Welsh

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Ellis, Havelock

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

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

Freehill, Maurice

42.

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

Horace

43.

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