Foolish Wisdom Quotes

#1. You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

Louise Colet

#2. Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place, rightly exercised under the Cross, will find nourishment.

John Woolman

#3. For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

Confucius

#4. I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.

Joan D. Vinge

#5. It is knowledge that binds us; shared wisdom from ages past and new wisdom that we should all seek to embrace. Wisdom is our legacy; our refuge from the world of the ignorant and foolish. We chose this path that we might walk open-eyed into the future... undaunted by fear and lies.

Ted Naifeh

#6. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

#7. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#8. Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

Martin Luther

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Tad Williams

#12. I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Oscar Wilde

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.

T.A. Miles

#17. I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. Many men do not look their part. Wisdom may wait behind a foolish smile, bravery can gaze from eyes that cry fright.

Mark Lawrence

#19. After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Epictetus

#21. Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

Washington Irving

#22. 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

#23. The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act.

David V. Gaggin

#24. The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#25. Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#26. You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#27. You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom

John Colton

#28. A dog to vomit does turn,
A fool to folly but return,
The wise err and learn,
Gaining from each burn.

Munindra Misra

#29. When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will 'give way' and it is I who will 'fall.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.
True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.

Lao-Tzu

#31. I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Ben Jonson

#32. A reluctance to acknowledge that there may be wisdom in youth would be foolish.

Terry Brooks

#33. Wisdom keeps us from making foolish mistakes.

Diane Goold

#34. Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.

Atwood H. Townsend

#35. Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things 'now' or wait until 'then.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#36. When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.

Aeschylus

#37. Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#38. The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Evan Esar

#39. Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I.
But when thou sayest fool remember well
That fools do walk in foolish company.
So if I am a fool, perhaps 'tis true
That other fools around me may be found.

Ian Doescher

#40. Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was 'easy' over that which was 'right'. And while it's 'right' to admit this to myself, it isn't 'easy.' So, which choice am I going to make this time?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#41. In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

Thomas Shepard

#42. Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

Christine De Pizan

#43. 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

#44. The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Tryon Edwards

#46. I do find life difficult at times ... and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy ... I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

Alison Uttley

#47. Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#48. Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#49. It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

Aesop

#50. Wisdom is born of the foolish things one does for love.

Marty Rubin

#51. She had not yet such a love of wisdom as to be able to bear with folly. The foolish and weak are the most easily disgusted with folly and weakness which is not of their own sort, and are the last to make allowances for them.

George MacDonald

#52. Whatever you do, foolish or wise, important or unimportant, do with love and enthusiasm.

Debasish Mridha

#53. Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#54. We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?

Debasish Mridha

#55. The learned has grieve by instructing foolish disciple surely,
As a wicked wife or with the wretched having familiarity.
[4] 1.4 Chanakya

Munindra Misra

#56. Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish ... It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

Hermann Hesse

#57. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#58. To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

Euripides

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

Christopher Paolini

#60. If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

Mark Batterson

#61. And not being guided into action by foolish thought is what is known as "wisdom" (prajna).

Zen Master So Sahn

#62. A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#63. My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.

Gotze Dijkstra

#64. Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Hermann Hesse

#65. We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be!

Debasish Mridha

#66. I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Moliere

#67. There is a thin line of difference in being courageous and foolish!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#68. Secrets are foolish creatures, I have learned. No longer do I wish to play with fools.

Jesikah Sundin

#69. We are all foolish sinners saved only by grace & we can all use a little guidance sometimes.

Lesley Sears

#70. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#71. My wisdom absent of God's wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#72. There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

John Brunner

#73. Do you know why people are prone to make such foolish moral decisions? Because something always whispers to us that our situations are unique: Nobody has ever felt this way before.

Andy Stanley

#74. No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

Moliere

#75. An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.

Tahir Shah

#76. Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

Munia Khan

#77. he guessed they all knew what he'd done and counted him foolish for blatantly going against their boss. Well, he reasoned as he dropped his jacket over the high back of his chair, there was a Bible verse about the world's wisdom being foolish in the sight of God.

Kim Vogel Sawyer

#78. My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

Mason Cooley

#79. Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Rumi

#80. ..all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#81. The wise pause; the foolish react.

Todd Stocker

#82. Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Thomas Babington Macaulay