Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Horace

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Fielding, Henry

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, African

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

Collins, John Churton

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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Horace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Luther, Martin

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Brown, Gene

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

41.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Eliot, George

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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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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.