Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

- Bioleau

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Billings, Josh

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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 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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Brown, Gene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Collins, John Churton

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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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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Luther, Martin

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Eliot, George

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