Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shadwell, Thomas

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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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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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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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Proverb, African

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Eliot, George

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Brown, Gene

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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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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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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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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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