Best 159 quotes in «foolishness quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

Only stupid questions create wealth.

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

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

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

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

The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life

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

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

A fool conscious of her foolishness Is to that extent wise. But a fool who considers himself wise Is the one to be called a fool.

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

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

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

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

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

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

An error can only be made once; the second time it will be called foolishness.

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.

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! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own.

(Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch.

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.

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, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream. This is a common experience with all of us. And so it was that I, the modern, often entered into my dreaming, and in the consequent strange dual personality was both actor and spectator. And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive.

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

And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

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

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

Don't fool yourself by look so humble whereas the thing you want is respect.

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)

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.

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.

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

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.

Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

Forget who you are and why you're here-all that foolishness. Live. Enjoy life.

Fikiria kwanza maana ya unachosema. Halafu sema.

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.

GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time.

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 that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness.

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.