Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Collins, John Churton

2.

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

Proverb, Chinese

3.

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

Sutro, Alfred

4.

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

Freehill, Maurice

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, English

7.

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

Proverb, Jewish

8.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

9.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

11.

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

Ellis, Havelock

12.

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.

13.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

14.

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

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

Proverb, Welsh

17.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

21.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

26.

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

Balzac, Honore De

27.

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

28.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

29.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

30.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Mizner, Wilson

34.

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

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

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

37.

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

Smith, Wes

38.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

46.

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

Luther, Martin

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.