Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Shaw, George Bernard

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Brown, Gene

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Proverb, African

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

37.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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

44.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Spanish