Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Shaw, George Bernard

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Horace

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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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 spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Proverb, Welsh

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

29.

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

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Collins, John Churton

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Luther, Martin

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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.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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

48.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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

Lincoln, Abraham