Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Grumet, Gerald W.

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Confucius

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, African

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

11.

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

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Italian

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

15.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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 fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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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 foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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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.

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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 needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Luther, Martin

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

42.

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

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Smith, Wes

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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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Fools are without number.