Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

2.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

3.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Ellis, Havelock

7.

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

Billings, Josh

8.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

9.

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

Proverb, African

10.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Korda, Michael

15.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

16.

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.

17.

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

Freehill, Maurice

18.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Butler, Samuel

19.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

21.

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

22.

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

Collins, John Churton

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Horace

28.

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

Balzac, Honore De

29.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

32.

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

36.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

39.

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

Smith, Wes

40.

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

41.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

42.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

46.

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

Proverb, Welsh

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin