Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Brown, Gene

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Korda, Michael

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

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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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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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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Luther, Martin

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Brown, Gene

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, African

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Horace

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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