Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Billings, Josh

2.

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

Sutro, Alfred

3.

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.

4.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

5.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

6.

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

Korda, Michael

7.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

8.

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

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

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

Ellis, Havelock

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

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.

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

17.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

18.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

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

Smith, Wes

20.

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

21.

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

Balzac, Honore De

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

24.

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

25.

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

Confucius

26.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

29.

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

30.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

31.

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

32.

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

Freehill, Maurice

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

36.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

37.

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

38.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

39.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

40.

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

Proverb, Jewish

41.

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