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Foolishness pours out of an open mouth ...
but wisdom sneaks in through the ears ... — Gail Z. Martin

The difference between wisdom and foolishness lies within our dreams. To spend all day dreaming, instead of working to reach our dreams is pointless. — Jose N. Harris

We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance. — Rajesh Nanoo

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness. — Winston Churchill

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. — Aristophanes

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

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do — Osho

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God . — Saint Augustine

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom. — Paul Tillich

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line,' and we showed up with an eraser? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

My wisdom absent of God's wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact. — Alistair Begg

Madness is blackness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;
Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness. — Caleb Ricketts

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world — Joseph Campbell

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect. — Plato

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wandering alone in the barrenness of foolishness, I hear the drip-drip of Wisdom and smile. — Martin Cosgrove

You can buy wisdom from nowhere; but for the foolishness, you don't have to buy it; it is free and it is everywhere. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Conventional Wisdom is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today. — Orrin Woodward

I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom. — C. G. Jung

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. — Saul Bellow

What is not worth understanding is not knowing. — Caleb Ricketts

Well I am glad I have something of the fool in my disposition
foolishness being the only quality that makes wisdom possible. — Marie Corelli

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. — Voltaire

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. — Colette

We are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame . — Elif Shafak

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

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

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

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. — Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. — Witold Gombrowicz

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

Foolishness is darkness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. — Jane Smiley

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

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs. — Jefferson Smith

Wisdom is born of the foolish things one does for love. — Marty Rubin

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. — Victor Hugo

Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same. — Mark Lawrence

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Baltasar Gracian

A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness. — Debasish Mridha

He's acting as foolish as a kitten ... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while. — Christopher Paolini

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe