Top Foolishness Quotes

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

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!...

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.

It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

A fool's head never whitens.

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.

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.

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

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

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some peopl...