Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Smith, Wes

2.

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

Proverb, Italian

3.

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

Balzac, Honore De

4.

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

5.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

6.

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

Ellis, Havelock

7.

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

8.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

9.

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

Brown, Gene

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

12.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Horace

16.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

19.

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

20.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Mizner, Wilson

23.

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

24.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

25.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

29.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

30.

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

31.

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

Sutro, Alfred

32.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Freehill, Maurice

36.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

37.

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

Collins, John Churton

38.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

39.

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

Confucius

40.

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

Proverb, Welsh

41.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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