Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Billings, Josh

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Smith, Wes

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

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Butler, Samuel

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

Horace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

11.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Ellis, Havelock

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

20.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

21.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Billings, Josh

24.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

Mizner, Wilson

27.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

40.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

41.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

42.

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

Brown, Gene

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

46.

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Lincoln, Abraham