Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Korda, Michael

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Boileau, Nicholas

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Brown, Gene

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Eliot, George

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

12.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Mizner, Wilson

14.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

24.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

25.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

48.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Lorimer, Geroge