Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Shakespeare, William

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Shakespeare, William

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Confucius

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Billings, Josh

10.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Fools are without number.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Brown, Gene

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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Luther, Martin

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Korda, Michael

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

Freehill, Maurice