Foolishness Quotes

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.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

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

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

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

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

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

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

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

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.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

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

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

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

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

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.