Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Sutro, Alfred

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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 fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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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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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 wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, African

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Steele, Sir Richard

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Proverb, English

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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