Quotes About Wisdom And Foolishness

#1. 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

#2. Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

Joseph Campbell

#3. Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. We are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .

Elif Shafak

#5. 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

#6. Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

Clement Of Alexandria

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance ...

Katie Kiesler

#11. The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Plato

#12. Take the talents of wisdom and integrity. Without Christ, wisdom is double foolishness and integrity double sin, because they not only fail to perceive the wisdom and righteousness of Christ, but hinder and blaspheme the salvation of Christ.

Martin Luther

#13. Wisdom ... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#14. Wandering alone in the barrenness of foolishness, I hear the drip-drip of Wisdom and smile.

Martin Cosgrove

#15. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

H. Rider Haggard

#16. We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.

Rajesh Nanoo

#17. Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

#18. A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.

Debasish Mridha

#19. It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

Winston Churchill

#20. 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

#21. Conventional Wisdom is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.

Orrin Woodward

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Victor Hugo

#26. The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

Alistair Begg

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Khalil Gibran

#30. Our wisdom comes from our experience,
and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

#31. 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