Top 100 Quotes About The Foolish
#1. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.
Steve Biddulph
#2. Poetry: Foolish Passion of My Youth
Poetry was the foolish passion of my youth,
forsaken for twenty years
to raise a family.
When I returned to poetry in this,
my Autumn years,
my childhood was returned.
Now Poetry raises me.
Beryl Dov
#3. Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.
Neil Postman
#4. I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins.
(this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.)
there are times I want to kiss you midsentence.
undo the not-doing with one gesture.
David Levithan
#6. ..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
#7. Upon this build your nation:
The righteous can be trusted;
the wicked must be punished;
the wise must be promoted;
and the foolish must be disregarded.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Ezra Taft Benson
#9. The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are. That's what I discovered about myself last night.
Anonymous
#10. Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
William Rounseville Alger
#11. The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise.
Don Bradley
#12. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Gautama Buddha
#13. The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
#15. Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy Zahn
#17. This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell
#18. 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
#19. It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future; the far-seeing are also the foolish.
Robbie Ross
#20. No one would have pity on the foolish slave of his own pity.
Stefan Zweig
#21. The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
Buddha
#22. "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#23. The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
Finley Peter Dunne
#24. The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
Jason Mraz
#25. The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
Sakyong Mipham
#26. Expect the worst and you can't be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard.
Luke Scull
#27. The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.
Marie Kondo
#28. Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
Thomas Carlyle
#29. Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.
Erik Naggum
#30. Dumb hope is what it hurts most to write, occupying the foolish schemes we pursued for decades, the blind alleys, the cliffs we stepped off.
Mary Karr
#31. Maybe I naively subscribed to the foolish notion that my love could save him. Whatever the reason, I entered the room and sank to the carpet beside that sad and broken boy.
A Meredith Walters
#32. If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
Ivan Panin
#33. If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.
John Lancaster Spalding
#34. it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a fashion. In
Dean Koontz
#35. What had passed between them had been real and true and lived. Not like the silly infatuation she had felt for [him] when she was 16, or the foolish attraction she'd felt. Theirs had been a true love. Forged and built and earned.
David Liss
#36. All men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves - they are the rulers of Men
R. Scott Bakker
#37. But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?
R.C. Sproul
#38. In the end maybe the brave ones are also the foolish ones. Maybe only fools are ever truly brave.
Mikaela Everett
#39. Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his "household.
James Allen
#40. And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
#41. In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.
Libba Bray
#42. Love doesn't come along too often. Believe me, I know. When it does, only the foolish let it fade. Even if it is him.
H.M. Ward
#43. For why should not the wine of their own country satisfy men's desires, unless they were to import water also, like the foolish Persian kings?
Clement Of Alexandria
#44. The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#45. Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.
Gautama Buddha
#47. This is my fear, of a life wasted, of a cause misbegotten, of a belief that is, in the end, an empty and unattainable ideal, the foolish designs of an innocent child who believed there could be more.
R.A. Salvatore
#48. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
Alexandre Dumas
#50. The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
Chanakya
#51. Wise men will change their minds while the foolish stubbornly cling to their pride.
Terron James
#52. The foolish rush to end their lives.
Only the steadfast soul survives.
Christine De Pizan
#53. Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the essential - a regrettable situation.
Noriko Ogiwara
#54. Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.
Bernard Darwin
#55. He shall rise up and shut the door, it will be in vain for mere professors to knock, and cry Lord, Lord open unto us, for that same door which shuts in the wise virgins will shut out the foolish for ever. Lord, shut me in by Thy grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. The raging rocks And shivering shocks Shall break the locks Of prison gates: And Phibbus' car Shall shine from far, And make and mar The foolish Fates.
William Shakespeare
#59. The foolish heart - blinded from reality because of its idols - does not learn from experience.
Timothy Keller
#60. Wisdom is born of the foolish things one does for love.
Marty Rubin
#61. The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
Carl Maria Von Weber
#62. God chooses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise and the strong, to show his power and our weakness without him. God's power is perfect in our weakness,
Francine Rivers
#63. But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.
Mary Jo Putney
#64. The more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
Molly Ivins
#65. [W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties, in the foolish hope that a bigger government will provide greater security.
Larry P Arnn
#66. The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
Huangbo Xiyun
#67. The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
Heinrich Heine
#68. The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
Louis Farrakhan
#69. People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
Vladimir Lenin
#70. God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
Heinrich Heine
#71. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
Madeleine L'Engle
#73. Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. 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
#75. The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.
Swami Muktananda
#76. How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.
William Shakespeare
#78. I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going.
Glen Cook
#79. The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace
#80. Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.
Zoroaster
#82. The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
Max Muller
#83. It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion?
Gregory Palamas
#84. The wise respond.The foolish react.The wise think and then act.The foolish act and then regret.-RVM
R.v.m.
#85. It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.
Jill Johnston
#86. Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don't think that sex is my Muse.
Peter Murphy
#87. The wise are in the light,
moving forward;
the foolish are in the dark,
moving backwards.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#88. 15 For so is the will of God, that by your good works you would shut the mouth of the foolish who do not know God.
Janet M. Magiera
#89. Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#90. Examinations consist of the foolish asking questions the wise cannot answer
Oscar Wilde
#91. Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus
#92. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
#93. The Foolish man is one who takes pride in hate and oppression of the unfortunate. He is weak because of such behavior.
Ellen J. Barrier
#94. We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but ... not by much.
Joe Abercrombie
#95. Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
Thomas Fuller
#96. The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
Algernon Blackwood
#97. Prosperity hath slain the foolish and wounded the wise.
John Owen
#98. Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
Erica Jong
#99. The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Madame Roland
#100. The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
Chanakya
