Top 100 Quotes About Foolishness
#1. I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.
Gregory Maguire
#2. I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.
Colonel Sanders
#3. That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect ... why can't I have it? Did you pity me? Up until now, I was just powerless and pitiful to you. So you thought I'd take any helping hand offered to me. Right?
Jo Yoon-hee
#4. Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.
R. Scott Bakker
#5. In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#6. There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it.
James McBride
#7. It is through another's foolishness that we are able to spin tails of lies without retribution ... what do you see and what do you want to see, both are before you now, this day.
Tonny K. Brown
#8. Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#9. When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. Foolishness pours out of an open mouth ...
but wisdom sneaks in through the ears ...
Gail Z. Martin
#11. To sit at a table with nourishing food in front of you and the people you love all around you yet not feel thankful reveals not only a lack of self worth but a certain degree of foolishness as well.
Kurt Michael Friese
#12. Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
Sophocles
#14. Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
Joseph Campbell
#15. Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Sophocles
#16. There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
Thornton Wilder
#17. I have no time for babbling foolishness."
"Don't be so hasty," said Victor. "There's always time for babbling.
Eoin Colfer
#18. Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
Paul Tillich
#19. Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness." "Are
Hermann Hesse
#20. 1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become 'fools' so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.
Anonymous
#21. There's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
George Horace Lorimer
#22. I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.
James Randi
#23. Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
#24. Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#25. This was beyond a joke. This had moved beyond foolishness, slipped over the line into genuine 24 karat Jesus-Christ-I-fucked-up-bigtime territory.
Neil Gaiman
#26. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
Paul The Apostle
#27. Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
William Penn
#28. I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
George Jones
#29. 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
#30. The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.
R.L. LaFevers
#31. But you invite ... "
"I invite a bit of military nonsense."
"That's what I ... "
"Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson."
"What lesson?"
"The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness.
Frank Herbert
#33. The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
Elbert Hubbard
#34. If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#35. So you read this book and, God willing, enjoyed it. Do I have to tell you how proud a mother would be of a son like that? I Don't. Now maybe he'll give up all this foolishness and go into a worthwhile profession.
Leah Greenburg
#36. Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
Louis Pasteur
#37. The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.
John Piper
#38. More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.
Muhammad
#39. 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
#40. Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
Oriana Fallaci
#41. So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?'
'Love,' he explained.
She looked at him with eyes the blue of the sky. 'I hope you choke on it,' she said, flatly.
Neil Gaiman
#42. 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
#43. Walking into danger with your eyes open and your mind clear is a sign of bravery, not foolishness. Well, sometimes foolishness. But as long as you walk back out again, you can pretend that part doesn't matter.
Seanan McGuire
#44. But what a path it has been! I have had to pass through so much foolishness, so much vice, so much error, so much nausea and disillusionment and wretchedness, merely in order to become a child again and be able to start over. But all of this was just and proper.
Hermann Hesse
#45. God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
Christina, Queen Of Sweden
#46. But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
Ben Carson
#47. Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
Saint Bernard
#48. 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
#49. The fool sees his own foolishness reflected in the wisdom of the teacher.'" This
Robert Kroese
#51. Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Anton Chekhov
#52. To a man whose confidence is in his own strength, the gospel will be foolishness. But God shows his children things when it is imperative - when it is important for us and when it serves his purpose.
Jose Henriquez
#53. I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
Charles Dickens
#54. The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.
Emma Curtis Hopkins
#55. Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.
Theodore Roosevelt
#56. When death stood round the corner, taking lives like a gardener digging up potatoes, it was foolishness to care what dirty things this person or that did with his body.
W. Somerset Maugham
#57. Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness
Epictetus
#58. I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.
Saint Augustine
#59. Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
Pythagoras
#60. The wonderful thing about being ignorant is that it can be resolved very easily. Foolishness cannot.
Kameron Hurley
#61. Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
Paul David Tripp
#62. Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
Louis Pasteur
#63. Don't take it to be foolishness.. It's impossible to be wise in love.
Harry
#64. 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
#65. He's acting as foolish as a kitten ... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.
Christopher Paolini
#66. Nothing has caused more foolishness in this world than the pursuit of beauty. It's foolish to pursue something that is everywhere.
Cassia Leo
#67. 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
#68. Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?
Then, leave me to my foolishness.
Piers Anthony
#69. I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.
Lucy N. Colman
#70. Look here, cousin," Big Country's drawled in the background. "This here's a car. We just got off a plane, and no matter how fast you push this bitch, she ain't gon' fly, so believe me when I say, I refuse to die over some foolishness you call love, not today.
Shay Rucker
#72. My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
Nikola Tesla
#73. Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness - there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
Orson Scott Card
#74. It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
Albert Camus
#75. It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.
Hermann Hesse
#76. Wilderness is wise; civilization enjoys the joy of foolishness.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;
Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.
Caleb Ricketts
#78. Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.
Rohinton Mistry
#79. I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine.
Jeanette Winterson
#80. Proverbs 15:1-3 1 A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare. 2 The tongue of the wise makes knowledge appealing, but the mouth of a fool belches out foolishness.
Anonymous
#81. All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
Paulo Coelho
#82. Your life may be messed and your foolishness may have put you into captivity but Jesus can do the whatever it is that is immeasurably more in your life.
Louie Giglio
#83. 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
#84. More often than not, the foolishness of our humanity drives us to destroy the very things that we need to keep ourselves from destroying ourselves. And because that's the case, God will never allow us to destroy Christmas.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#85. It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.
Paul Eldridge
#86. The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation
Benjamin Franklin
#87. Don't ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
Jean Baudrillard
#89. Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#90. Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.
Thomas S. Monson
#91. Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir
#92. One can repent of a sin and have done with it; but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it.
Jetta Carleton
#93. The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.
Saul Bellow
#94. We are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .
Elif Shafak
#95. He was sometimes stern but more often kindly
just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white, and found it hard to be patient with things that struck him as foolishness.
John Christopher
#96. Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
Al-Ghazali
#97. What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?
Silvia Hartmann
#98. You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
Vinod Khosla
#99. Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?
Linda Sue Park
#100. Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
Blaise Pascal
