Quotes About Foolishness

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

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

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.