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

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

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

Smith, Wes

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

Billings, Josh

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Brown, Gene

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, African

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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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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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Horace

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Proverb, English

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Lincoln, Abraham