Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Shadwell, Thomas

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Confucius

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Billings, Josh

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

Horace

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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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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 the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Eliot, George

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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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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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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

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

Balzac, Honore De