A Quote by Sophocles

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Sophocles

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Foolishness Indeed Sister Wickedness

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Sophocles
Greek - Poet
496 BC - 406 BC

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Witold Gombrowicz

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

Jane Austen

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.

Muhammad

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

Baron de Montesquieu

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

Sophocles

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Jane Smiley

Do not become angry and furious.... for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.

Sufyan al-Thawri

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Chanakya

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Seneca the Younger

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

Norman Lear

I actually named myself Redfoo because I want a name that describes my energy. Red stands for passion. Foo stands for foolishness and having fun. It's passionate foolishness.

Redfoo

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.

Mae Jemison

The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.