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Fools and foolishness

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

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

Eliot, George

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.

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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Confucius

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

Sutro, Alfred