Foolishness Quotes
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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
William Penn
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To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!
Jose Rizal
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Sophocles
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The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life
David Oyedepo
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Rescuing people from the results of their own foolishness is really what customers service is all about. Customers rarely obey the rules. They expect you to rescue them whenever they do something stupid. Will you be a “rescuer,” known far and wide for customer service, or will you steadfastly insist that your customers follow the proper procedures?
Roy H. Williams
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
Bentley Little
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
Gautama Buddha
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness.
Chenjerai Hove
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
William Shenstone
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That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
Alfred Sutro
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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
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There's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
George Horace Lorimer
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To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
Euripides
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The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.
Emma Curtis Hopkins
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
Vinod Khosla
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The past, she knew, is inviolable, one of the few things in life that cannot be marred by present foolishness, and in it the present may find its peace.
Elizabeth Goudge
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To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.
Ernest Becker
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
Benjamin Carson
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Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.
Ray Comfort
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Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.
Russell Baker
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Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
Hermann Hesse