Top 250 Foolishness Quotes & Sayings

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

In the foolishness lies the danger.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

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.

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

In a satire, you need foolishness.

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

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

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

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

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

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

We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

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.

The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

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

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

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

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

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

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

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

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

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

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.

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.

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

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

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

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

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

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

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.