Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

Confucius

3.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

4.

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

Freehill, Maurice

5.

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

6.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

7.

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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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

9.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Smith, Wes

12.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

Sutro, Alfred

13.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

14.

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

Brown, Gene

15.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

20.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

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

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

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

Balzac, Honore De

25.

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

26.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

27.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

28.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

Proverb, African

30.

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

31.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

33.

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.

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Mizner, Wilson

36.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

37.

Fools are without number.