Quotes About Foolishness

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

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.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish and wealthy.

How do you not believe in fate? How do you ever think that you are the one in control? How could she have been so foolish as to think that she had any authority over her future? How could she have been so brazen as to think that this had anything at all to do with her?

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Stupidity is not a crime. You're free to go.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.

Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.

learned a long time ago never to underestimate the spectacular natural wonder that is people's stupidity.

Proverbs 18:2 speaks to this issue with penetrating insight: "A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.

Some people think listening is what you do between opportunities to say something. During listening times they don't listen at all. They are deciding what to say. Don't be such a parent. The Proverbs remind you that the fool does not delight in understanding, but in airing his own opinion (Proverbs 18:2).

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.