Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Billings, Josh

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mizner, Wilson

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Collins, John Churton

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.