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Fools and foolishness

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

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

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

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Luther, Martin

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Brown, Gene

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Collins, John Churton

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Proverb, African

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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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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 always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Eliot, George

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

Korda, Michael

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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 fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William