Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

Sutro, Alfred

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Ellis, Havelock

11.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

13.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

18.

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

Smith, Wes

19.

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

Korda, Michael

20.

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

21.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Billings, Josh

22.

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

Horace

23.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

24.

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

Freehill, Maurice

25.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

35.

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

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

38.

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

Mizner, Wilson

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

43.

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

44.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Italian

47.

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

Proverb, African

48.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

49.

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