Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Smith, Wes

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

Brown, Gene

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Eliot, George

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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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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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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