Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Steele, Sir Richard

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Billings, Josh

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

Korda, Michael

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

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

12.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

14.

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

15.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Proverb, African

21.

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Billings, Josh

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, English

29.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Brown, Gene

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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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

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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