Foolishness Quotes - Page 3

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An' foolish notion.

More often than not, the foolishness of our humanity drives us to destroy the very things that we need to keep ourselves from destroying ourselves. And because that’s the case, God will never allow us to destroy Christmas.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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

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

Has he written to you?''He writes frequently.''Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

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 granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.

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.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

There are bearded fools.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

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

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind 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.

We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.

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

The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.

Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

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

A fool's head never whitens.

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

Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

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.

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.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

Its foolishness to claim that one is faithful towards God, when one is habitual of breaking the trust of those who love and respect him.

Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

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

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

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 if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

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.

Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

Men trip not on mountains they stumble on stones.

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.

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

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.

The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.