Foolishness Quotes

• The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

  

  Socrates
  • Parents
  • Wisdom
  • Reverence

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

  

  Sophocles
  • Think
  • Acts
  • Foolishness

• A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Foolishness

• Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Passion
  • Wise
  • Christ

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

  

  Sophocles
  • Count
  • Foolishness
  • Tale

• It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Arrows
  • Egoism
  • Darts

• Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Pain
  • Fascination
  • Foolishness

• First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Curiosity
  • Foolishness

• Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Twins
  • Foolishness

• My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Human Nature
  • My Mother
  • Protests

• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fool
  • Foolish
  • Wit

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love Is
  • Foolishness
  • Wisdom Of God

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

  

  Jane Austen
  • Situation
  • Foolishness
  • Awkwardness

• Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

  

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
  • Men
  • Fool
  • Advantage

• In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

  

  Nicolas Gomez Davila
  • Knows
  • Educated
  • Foolishness

• Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • Human
  • Virtue

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Wisdom
  • Darkness

• To fear an inner life, she thought, was the greatest foolishness. It was like fearing a breath of air. Why did people find it harder to admit to a universe within than without? Why trust, for a moment, one's own absurd measurement of either?

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Foolishness

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

  

  Pythagoras
  • Acting
  • Consider
  • Avoid

• My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Home
  • Leave
  • Foolishness

• She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Sense
  • Appearance

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

  

  Al-Ghazali
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Foolishness

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

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Ignorance
  • Foolishness
  • Apparent

• Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Democracy
  • Traditions
  • Human Dignity

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