Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Freehill, Maurice

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Proverb, Spanish

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Eliot, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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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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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Brown, Gene

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

23.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Proverb, English

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Italian

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.

Billings, Josh

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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