Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Smith, Wes

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Collins, John Churton

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

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

Billings, Josh

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Brown, Gene

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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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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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

Freehill, Maurice

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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 fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Confucius

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Billings, Josh

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Luther, Martin

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Proverb, African

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, English

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

41.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Horace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett