Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Eliot, George

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

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

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

Korda, Michael

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Horace

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, Italian

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Brown, Gene

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, English

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Collins, John Churton

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