A Foolish Person Quotes

#1. A wise person can never be truly poor;
a foolish person can never be truly rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. There is no gap between the ignorant and the wise. A foolish person is a wise person; a wise person is a foolish person.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. A foolish person who does the same foolish things is like a dog that returns to where it has to throw up.
~ Proverbs 26:11

Bible Verses

#4. How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

Judith McNaught

#5. Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

Oswald Chambers

#6. The wise see in the dark;
the foolish are blind, even in light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Foolish people ... When I say foolish people in this contemptuous way, I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there's one person I do despise more than another, it's the man who doesn't think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

Jerome K. Jerome

#8. In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

Jane Hirshfield

#9. Thinking that the next person, the next relationship, the next experience will free you - these are foolish thoughts of people who are bound again and again to birth, death and rebrith for thousands and thousands of incarnations.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as "a person.

Wendell Berry

#11. Words are not good for the secret meaning; everything always becomes a little bit different the moment one speaks it aloud, a bit falsified, a bit foolish - yes, and this too is also very good and pleases me greatly: that one person's treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to others.

Hermann Hesse

#12. No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that.

Gabrielle Reece

#13. Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

Rajneesh

#14. To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

Sathya Sai Baba

#15. The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

George Washington

#16. Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. Our speculations about Shakespeare are almost as multifarious and foolish as our speculations about the maker of the universe, and, like those, are frequently concerned to establish that his works were not made by him but by another person of the same name.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#18. You are first and foremost a person. A reckless, foolish person, but a person nonetheless. If I ever say you are not permitted to do something, rest assured that the last reason I would ever say so would be because you are a girl.

Renee Ahdieh

#19. Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

Fuxi

#20. To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person's not a little impulsive, they don't have a pulse.

Jarod Kintz

#21. Proverbs 15:20-21 20 Sensible children bring joy to their father; foolish children despise their mother. 21 Foolishness brings joy to those with no sense; a sensible person stays on the right path.

Anonymous

#22. I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.

Thomas Moore

#23. A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.

Ian Caldwell

#24. The foolish experience much,
but learn little.
The wise experience little,
but learn much.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes;
a wise man enjoys the company of his wife.
The mother of a prudent son will rejoice;
the father of a mindless son will groan.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. The wise are in the light,
moving forward;
the foolish are in the dark,
moving backwards.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind.

Fuyumi Soryo

#28. I'd been on the precipice of being brave, and nothing can make a person more foolish and vulnerable than bravery.

Penny Reid

#29. It is foolish to teach a person a lesson by killing them. For they'd be too dead to learn anything.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#30. The wise need the least advice,
but seek it the most.
The foolish need counsel the most,
but seek it the least.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. She loved all the creatures of the farm. Each one, even a hen, was like a person to her, even more real than many of the real people she knew. Some were playful or bold, and some were shy. Some were gentle, and some were wicked. Some were smart, like Fido, and some were foolish, like the hens.

Roger Lea MacBride

#32. I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough to not even try to derive any tangible benefit from the wealth (aside from the pleasure of regularly counting the beans).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming

Sunday Adelaja

#34. No. You won't do. You've treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It made me feel so lonely, somehow ... I'm really just a foolish and useless person.

Osamu Dazai

#35. If you debate the wise,
no matter how poor,
they will hearken to wisdom.
If you debate the foolish,
no matter how rich,
they will mock wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#36. If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

Epictetus

#37. How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.

Elena Ferrante