Quotes About Foolishness

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

ThereÂ'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 heÂ's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.