Top Foolishness Quotes

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.

Any fool can break something, criticise someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help others thrive over time.

Foolishness Definition

(n.) The quality of being foolish.

(n.) A foolish practice; an absurdity.

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

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life...

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now!...

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.

A fool's head never whitens.

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

We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish...

If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him.

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.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

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 natura...

It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times

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

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfor...

Madness is blackness.

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