Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Steele, Sir Richard

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

2.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

3.

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

Smith, Wes

4.

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

Sutro, Alfred

5.

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

Confucius

6.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

7.

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

8.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

17.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

18.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

19.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

Balzac, Honore De

25.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, African

29.

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

Collins, John Churton

30.

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

Proverb, Jewish

31.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

34.

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.

35.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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.

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

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

Ellis, Havelock

39.

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

Freehill, Maurice

40.

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