Foolishness Quotes
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Foolishness Quotes & Sayings
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Foolishness pours out of an open mouth ... but wisdom sneaks in through the ears ... — Gail Z. Martin
Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What more can you give them before bravery turns to foolishness and luck turns cold? Who can outrun the horizon?
— J.T.K Belle
I can never be important to any one.''What is to prevent you?'
'Every thing - my situation - my foolishness and awkwardness. — Jane Austen
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
— Horace
In the foolishness lies the danger.
— Omar Torrijos
The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own
— Amit Abraham
Wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.
— Hermann Hesse
Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity — Munia Khan
We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!
— Louie Giglio
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
— Sophocles
Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.
— Laurie Perez
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
— Paul Tillich
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
— George Bernard Shaw
More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.
— Muhammad
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
— Louis Pasteur
If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
Live in the moment ... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.
— J. Aleksandr Wootton
I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.
— Nichole Nordeman
Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.
— Hermann Hesse
I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.
— Neal Shusterman
Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Foolishness is darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.
— Henry David Thoreau
Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician's trickery?
— Kazuo Ishiguro
I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have no time for babbling foolishness.""Don't be so hasty," said Victor. "There's always time for babbling. — Eoin Colfer
More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
— Brock Yates
One can repent of a sin and have done with it; but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it.
— Jetta Carleton
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
— Robert Jordan
Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.
— Eddie Vedder
It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.
— Jefferson Smith
For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
— Randall Terry
I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.
— Gregory Maguire
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
— Gautama Buddha
The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life
— David Oyedepo
God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
— R.C. Sproul Jr.
Oh, I wouldn't have minded its being heretical. I can stand wickedness, but I can't stand foolishness,
— L.M. Montgomery
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
— Alexandre Dumas
We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.
— Charles Spurgeon
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
— Vinod Khosla
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
— Thomas Sowell
I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine.
— Jeanette Winterson
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
— R.C. Sproul
Madness is witlessness's.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.
— Emma Curtis Hopkins
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
— Elbert Hubbard
Wisdom ... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Elizabeth remembered how foolish everyone had felt when they discovered Mr. Mercandy was the victim of a stroke and not a zombie as they'd thought.
— Francine Pascal
The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.
— John Rosemond
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
— Khalil Gibran
I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.
— Colonel Sanders
He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness
— Epictetus
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
— George Santayana
The wonderful thing about being ignorant is that it can be resolved very easily. Foolishness cannot.
— Kameron Hurley
Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
— Witold Gombrowicz
Foolishness is the human condition, and exactly what God handles best.
— Curtiss Ann Matlock
Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.
— Raheel Farooq
Byjadh heemyeh odh ubaech achoedzaY Foolishness may have golden offspring. I hope yours does.
— Gail Carson Levine
Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
— Pythagoras
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
— Euripides
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
— Alice Walker
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
— William Osler
Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.
— Jalen Rose
If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
