Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

- Bernstein, Al

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Brown, Gene

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Proverb, Jewish

10.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

19.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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 build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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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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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Billings, Josh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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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