Foolishness Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

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 will not be sworn, but love may trans-form me to an oyster, but, I’ll take my oath on it, till hehave made an oyster of me, he shall never make me sucha fool.

Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.

Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

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

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

If you know, you are smart then never try to negotiate your intelligence for the inept.

My father told me once "Son, there are only two kinds people that can do whatever they want in life. Kings and fools.". So I decided to be a King.

GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time.

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father.

To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over.

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

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.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Man was bestowed with intelligence, only to gauge his foolishness!

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.

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

The madness in the heart is the state of mind.

Madness is witlessness’s.

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power.

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Wisdom is the closest to foolishness, a person can become so wise it leads him to become foolish.

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.