Quotes About Foolishness

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.