Top 100 Quotes About Foolishness
#1. I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
Rita Mae Brown
#2. Has he written to you?'
'He writes frequently.'
'Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.
Stendhal
#4. This plan looks like foolishness to earthbound philosophers. How can man comprehend a plan so based on love and servitude that his own deliverance and restoration is achieved by the death of the very "Lord of glory" (2:8)?
Albert H. Baylis
#5. 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
#6. She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked.
Joe Abercrombie
#7. We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
Afrika Bambaataa
#8. They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness.
Orna Ross
#9. We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.
Louie Giglio
#10. A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
George Santayana
#11. Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.
James E. Faust
#12. It is still through the foolishness of preaching that God gives repentance and faith.
Michael S. Horton
#13. 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
#14. Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.
Mark O'Connell
#15. 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
#17. There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.
Pete Seeger
#18. I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.
Peter David
#19. We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
Afrika Bambaataa
#20. PSA69.5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Anonymous
#21. Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
Jane Austen
#22. Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#23. Our wisdom comes from our experience,
and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
#24. Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.
Anuj
#25. 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
#26. Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness," I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.
Rae Carson
#27. Courage is not the absence of fear; true courage is manifest in bravely doing what has to be done in spite of fears or foes or the foolishness of the crowd or the taunts of the group. True courage is doing the right thing in spite of the odds or opposition or apprehension.
Emerson Roy West
#28. For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition, it must be another look at infinity, it must be another way of seeing the paradox of existence.
George Clayton Johnson
#29. None of them seemed to mind sliding around in the faeces and choking in the smoke. They were determined not to miss the opportunity of watching a foreigner make a fool of himself.
Tahir Shah
#30. Due north' on my compass is largely 'due' to the fact that in 'due' time I have been 'unduly' lax in recalibrating my compass. And I'm apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I'm lost.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran
#32. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Criss Jami
#33. 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
#34. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette
#35. Oh, I wouldn't have minded its being heretical. I can stand wickedness, but I can't stand foolishness,
L.M. Montgomery
#36. 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
#39. God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#40. Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
Edward Abbey
#41. The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life
David Oyedepo
#42. 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
#43. We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!
Louie Giglio
#44. One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
Kathleen Norris
#45. 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
#46. Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. 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
#48. All have their foolishness, and this is mine.
Damon Galgut
#49. The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.
Alistair Begg
#50. 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
#51. Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Cher
#52. Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
Leon Kass
#53. Desperate people do foolish things, don't be one of them.
Jenni Young
#54. Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.
Rajneesh
#55. It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.
Bryant McGill
#56. The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
William Seward
#57. 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
#59. I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
Criss Jami
#60. Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
Bentley Little
#61. Remember, Will Henry, some falsehoods are borne of necessity not foolishness.
Rick Yancey
#62. The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.
Neil Gaiman
#63. Foolishness in a grown man, no matter how lighthearted, is disgusting.
Alan Bradley
#64. I'm not going to force some theory on a mystery and make foolishness of it, just because that is what people who talk about it normally do.
Marilynne Robinson
#65. If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.
Kahlil Gibran
#66. The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.
Paul David Tripp
#67. In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.
Milan Kundera
#68. Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Victor Hugo
#70. 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
#71. As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
R.C. Sproul
#72. Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to.
John Green
#73. Only the wise man is content with what is his. All foolishness suffers the burden of dissatisfaction with itself.
Seneca.
#74. 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
#75. Be brave, and show them what you've got, [85] Have Fantasy with all her chorus, yes, Mind, Reason, Passion, Tears, the lot, But don't you leave out Foolishness.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#76. Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
#78. Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
Rajneesh
#79. I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.
Robert Winston
#80. But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten ...
Nick Cave
#81. More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Brock Yates
#82. The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own
Amit Abraham
#83. Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull
Jayden Hunter
#84. The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.
Kevin James Moore
#85. All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know better. Most of the time I just want to shake some sense into the world.
Stephen Hunt
#86. Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.
Raheel Farooq
#87. It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
Homer
#89. 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
#90. If you think my acts are foolishness; the foolishness may be in the fools eye.
Sophocles
#91. Right now we have obtained a human rebirth and have the opportunity to attain enlightenment through Dharma practice, so if we waste this precious opportunity in meaningless activities there is no greater loss and no greater foolishness.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#92. How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line,' and we showed up with an eraser?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#93. Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Richard Feynman
#94. But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.
Umberto Eco
#95. Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
Frank Herbert
#96. Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.
Rajneesh
#97. Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#98. When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity.
Ogwo David Emenike
#99. Conventional Wisdom is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.
Orrin Woodward
#100. There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
[Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]
Jean De La Bruyere
