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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Fooling.
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The God of Children and Fools:
There once was a man way up high,
who sat on his chair in the sky.
he called down to fool us,
and said he would rule us,
until we woke up bye and bye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
A fool is one who goes on trusting;
a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience.
You deceive him, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you.
Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn.
His trust is tremendous; his trust is
so pure that nobody can corrupt it.
Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense.
Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you.
Whatsoever experience comes to you,
let it happen, and then go on dropping it.
Go on cleaning your mind continuously;
go on dying to the past so you remain in the present here-now,
as if just born, just a babe.
- Osho
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
I love fools' experiments.
I am always making them.
- Charles Darwin
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons
out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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