Top Foolishness Quotes

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

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

Foolishness Definition

(n.) The quality of being foolish.

(n.) A foolish practice; an absurdity.

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...

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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...

Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

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.

Foolishness is darkness.

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the...

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look for...

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

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

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.

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.

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