Top Foolishness Quotes

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generati...

Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can...

Foolishness Definition

(n.) The quality of being foolish.

(n.) A foolish practice; an absurdity.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

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.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Every inch that is not fool is rogue.

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

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wond...

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

Foolishness is darkness.

For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.

There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.

Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

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.

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So t...