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Fools and foolishness

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Confucius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Collins, John Churton

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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 wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, African

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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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However big the fool, there is always a bigger 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

34.

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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Brown, Gene

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Eliot, George

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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