Foolishness Quotes
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.
A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do
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.
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!
The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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.
It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
I have no time for babbling foolishness.” “Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.
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.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
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.
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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?
There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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.
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
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.
Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.