Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Smith, Wes

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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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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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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, Welsh

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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 is always right.

Hare, David

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

Eliot, George

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Proverb, Italian

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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.

36.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Yiddish

38.

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

Brown, Gene

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, English

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Horace

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

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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.

50.

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