Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

- Disraeli, Isaac

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

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

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

Shadwell, Thomas

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Billings, Josh

10.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

11.

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

15.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

16.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Confucius

18.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Eliot, George

21.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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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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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

24.

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

Brown, Gene

25.

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

Ellis, Havelock

26.

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

33.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

34.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

36.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Steele, Sir Richard

40.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

41.

Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

48.

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

Proverb, African

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

Shaw, George Bernard