Quotes about fools and foolishness

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

Balzac, Honore De on fools and foolishness
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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 on fools and foolishness   

"Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done."

Bernstein, Al on fools and foolishness
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"A fool and his money get a lot of publicity."

Bernstein, Al on fools and foolishness   

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

Billings, Josh on fools and foolishness   

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

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

Billings, Josh on fools and foolishness
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"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them."

Bioleau on fools and foolishness
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"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

Blake, William on fools and foolishness
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"However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness   

"Greatest fools are the most often satisfied."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness
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"A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness
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"Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools."

Brown, Gene on fools and foolishness   

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

Butler, Samuel on fools and foolishness   

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do."

Carnegie, Dale on fools and foolishness
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"He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals."

Cervantes, Miguel De on fools and foolishness
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"How many fools does it take to make up a public?"

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on fools and foolishness   

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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 on fools and foolishness   

"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fools and foolishness
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"A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy."

Collins, John Churton on fools and foolishness   

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

Confucius on fools and foolishness
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"The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them."

Disraeli, Isaac on fools and foolishness   

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

Eliot, George on fools and foolishness   

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

Ellis, Havelock on fools and foolishness
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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 on fools and foolishness   

"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 on fools and foolishness   

"Fools are without number."

Erasmus, Desiderius on fools and foolishness   

"Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor."

Fielding, Henry on fools and foolishness   

"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured."

Ford, Henry on fools and foolishness   

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"Most fools think they are only ignorant."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness
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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 on fools and foolishness
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"Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness   

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

Freehill, Maurice on fools and foolishness
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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 on fools and foolishness
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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 on fools and foolishness
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"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on fools and foolishness
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"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fools and foolishness   

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

Goldsmith, Oliver on fools and foolishness   

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

Goldsmith, Oliver on fools and foolishness
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"While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple."

Grumet, Gerald W. on fools and foolishness