Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Ellis, Havelock

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Eliot, George

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]

Shakespeare, William

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

Collins, John Churton

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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Brown, Gene

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Korda, Michael

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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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 fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Welsh