Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

- Seneca

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

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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 the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

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

Confucius

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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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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Italian

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb, English

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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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.