Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Proverb, Welsh

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lorimer, Geroge

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Brown, Gene

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, English

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

Korda, Michael

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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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Collins, John Churton

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

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Horace

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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