Quotes about Foolishness

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. Votes: 4

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. Votes: 4

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. Votes: 4

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. Votes: 4

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. Votes: 4

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. Votes: 4

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. Votes: 4

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Votes: 4

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. Votes: 4

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. Votes: 3

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together! Votes: 3

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. Votes: 3

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth....but wisdom sneaks in through the ears.... Votes: 3

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers. Votes: 3

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life. Votes: 3

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house. Votes: 3

Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. Votes: 2

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Votes: 2

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Votes: 2

There are more fools in the world than there are people. Votes: 2

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. Votes: 2

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Votes: 2

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. Votes: 2

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. Votes: 2

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. Votes: 2

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. Votes: 2

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Votes: 2

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them. Votes: 2

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. Votes: 2

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. Votes: 2

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. Votes: 2

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness. Votes: 2

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Votes: 2

There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time. Votes: 2

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness. Votes: 2

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. Votes: 2

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression. Votes: 2

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. Votes: 2

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time. Votes: 2

Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness. Votes: 2

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Votes: 2

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness. Votes: 2

Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. Votes: 2

I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along. Votes: 2

The Family of Fools is ancient Votes: 1

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom Votes: 1

A barber learns to shave by shaving fools Votes: 1

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool Votes: 1

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision? Votes: 1

A man,s wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy Votes: 1

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck. Votes: 1

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. Votes: 1

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. Votes: 1

If you think my acts are foolishness; the foolishness may be in the fools eye. Votes: 1

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind Votes: 1

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool. Votes: 1

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as Votes: 1

In the foolishness lies the danger. Votes: 0

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness. Votes: 0

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself. Votes: 0

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker. Votes: 0

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense. Votes: 0

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness. Votes: 0

The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life Votes: 0

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind. Votes: 0

To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness! Votes: 0

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. Votes: 0

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness. Votes: 0

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. Votes: 0

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness. Votes: 0

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. Votes: 0

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that? Votes: 0

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness. Votes: 0

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation Votes: 0

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions? Votes: 0

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. Votes: 0

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. Votes: 0

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. Votes: 0

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better. Votes: 0

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. Votes: 0

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. Votes: 0

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness. Votes: 0

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works. Votes: 0

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream. Votes: 0

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool. Votes: 0

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly. Votes: 0

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom. Votes: 0

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do Votes: 0

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world Votes: 0

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. Votes: 0

The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile. Votes: 0

We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes! Votes: 0

There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense. Votes: 0

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. Votes: 0

We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness. Votes: 0

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? Votes: 0

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God . Votes: 0

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them. Votes: 0

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness. Votes: 0

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit. Votes: 0

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while. Votes: 0

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Votes: 0

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo Votes: 0

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties. Votes: 0

The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact. Votes: 0

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness. Votes: 0

Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit. Votes: 0

I rearranged the letters of the word Wisdom and got swimod.Afterwards I felt like I was drowning in foolishness. Votes: 0

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves. Votes: 0

People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools Votes: 0

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. Votes: 0

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness. Votes: 0

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him. Votes: 0

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. Votes: 0

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. Votes: 0

I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness. Votes: 0

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence. Votes: 0

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck. Votes: 0

I have no time for babbling foolishness.” "Don't be so hasty,” said Victor. "There's always time for babbling. Votes: 0

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness. Votes: 0

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition. Votes: 0

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it. Votes: 0

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea. Votes: 0

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing "” my situation "” my foolishness and awkwardness. Votes: 0

Its foolishness to claim that one is faithful towards God, when one is habitual of breaking the trust of those who love and respect him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But 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. Votes: 0

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done. Votes: 0

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older. Votes: 0

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is. Votes: -1

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. Votes: -1

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. Votes: -1

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness. Votes: -1