Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

- Freehill, Maurice

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Balzac, Honore De

2.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

3.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

4.

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

5.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

6.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

8.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

9.

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

Billings, Josh

10.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

11.

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

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

14.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Korda, Michael

20.

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

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

26.

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

Proverb, Welsh

27.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

28.

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

Horace

29.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

30.

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

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

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

Ellis, Havelock

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

39.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.