Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

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.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

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

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, English

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Luther, Martin

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

Brown, Gene

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

Smith, Wes

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

Horace

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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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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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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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

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