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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

Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, creativity is born. — Starhawk

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 stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity — Munia Khan

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. — Ruta Sepetys

Don't fool yourself by look so humble
whereas the thing you want is respect. — Toba Beta

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

Desperate people do foolish things, don't be one of them. — Jenni Young

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

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. — Umberto Eco

There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it. — James McBride

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

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness. — Rumi

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

It is a long story, and it does no credit to anyone: there is murder in it, and trickery, lies and foolishness, seduction and pursuit. Listen. It — Neil Gaiman

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

Our wisdom comes from our experience,
and our experience comes from our foolishness. — Sacha Guitry

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck. — Mark Slouka

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. — Rex Stout

Only the wise man is content with what is his. All foolishness suffers the burden of dissatisfaction with itself. — Seneca.

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

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. — Okakura Kakuzo

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

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house. — Chanakya

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness. — R.C. Sproul

Remember, Will Henry, some falsehoods are borne of necessity not foolishness. — Rick Yancey

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

Penology ... has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime ... a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety. — Paul Goodman

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. — Khalil Gibran

Don't take it to be foolishness.. It's impossible to be wise in love. — Harry

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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. — Richard Feynman

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. — Rajneesh

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

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions? — Linda Sue Park

The fool sees his own foolishness reflected in the wisdom of the teacher.'" This — Robert Kroese

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise. — Kevin Hearne

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

Nothing has caused more foolishness in this world than the pursuit of beauty. It's foolish to pursue something that is everywhere. — Cassia Leo

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
— Cher

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity. — Raheel Farooq

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for. — Edith Piaf

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

There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple. — Anzia Yezierska

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

There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time. — Wentworth Miller

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it. — George Bernard Shaw