Quotes About Foolishness

A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.

Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.

For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.

What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

A wise manís heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.

The words of a wise manís mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.

For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?