Best 159 quotes in «foolishness quotes» category

Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth.... but wisdom sneaks in through the ears.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.

I have no time for babbling foolishness.” “Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.

Only stupid questions create wealth.

It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.

The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

A blind man will suffer himself to be led, though by a dog, or a child.

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

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

But we'll try anything once hot or cold; A man must be a young food, or an old

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them.

Confound it, it's foolish, Tom

Conventional Wisdom" is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.

Do not cry to me. I can only cry with you. I will not die for you. I am still too young in the meaning of love. Talk to the Fool, to the one who left a throne to enter an anthill. He will enter your shadow. It cannot taint Him. He has done it before. His holiness is not fragile. It burns like a father to the sun. Touch His skin, put your hand in His side. He has kept His scars when He did not have to. Give Him your pain and watch it overwhelmed, burned away by the joy He takes in loving. In stooping.

Don't argue with a fool, future will teach him some lessons

Do you know why people are prone to make such foolish moral decisions? Because something always whispers to us that our situations are unique: Nobody has ever felt this way before.

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)

Elizabeth remembered how foolish everyone had felt when they discovered Mr. Mercandy was the victim of a stroke and not a zombie as they’d thought.

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, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.

Foolish people laugh at things they do not understand, producing the sound of braying donkeys.

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools

Foolish is the mind of a man to make bogeys for itself and to live in terrors of fear for things which lack of the substance of truth.

Forget who you are and why you're here-all that foolishness. Enjoy life. Don't work too hard, don't think too much, don't take anything too seriously.

From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strenghts.

Having lived in a mythical country, a place neither here nor there, these intellectuals from Vilna and Gomel helped create another and called it the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Such a name! It was hardly a union. The Soviets - workers’ councils - ruled it for about six weeks; socialism impoverished everybody, and only machine guns kept the republics from turning into nations. But to Szarza and the rest it didn’t matter. He’d put his life on the line, preferring simply to die at the wrong end of a gun rather than the wrong end of a club, and for twelve years - until 1929, when Stalin finally took over - he lived in a kind of dream world, a mythical country where idealistic, intellectual Jews actually ran things, quite literally a country of the mind. Theories failed, peasants died, the land itself dried up in despair. Still they worked twenty hours a day and swore they had the answer.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

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

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

I know you don't believe what you teach. But I believe all what you teach. Either I am the fool or you are.

Incredibly, just one mosquito species, Aedes aegypti is responsible for the spread of four known different deadly viral diseases to human beings, yet this mosquito has been allowed to infest densely-populated urban centers.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which kind of pisses me off.

I think we were very foolish, you and I.

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

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

It's astonishing what a number of churches and idiots there are in the world.