Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sutro, Alfred

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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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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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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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Brown, Gene

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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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Baudrillard, Jean

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Collins, John Churton

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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Korda, Michael

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Eliot, George

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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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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al