Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Proverb, African

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Ellis, Havelock

2.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

3.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

4.

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

5.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Shaw, George Bernard

6.

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

Billings, Josh

7.

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

Proverb, African

8.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

9.

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

Korda, Michael

10.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

11.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

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

13.

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

Freehill, Maurice

14.

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

15.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

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

Collins, John Churton

17.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

18.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

19.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Brown, Gene

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

Proverb, Jewish

36.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

37.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

38.

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

Eliot, George

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Confucius

43.

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

Proverb, Welsh

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

46.

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

Balzac, Honore De

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

Smith, Wes

49.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.