Quotes About Foolishness

Die Dummheit der Guten ist unergründlich klug.

Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely.

Many short follies—that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity.

Lord, what romantical fools men were, to overpass the known and good in order to strain and stretch after the mysterious merely unknown. Were dreams simply better than reality? Had fancy always more style?

suffers fools

byjadh heemyeh odh ubaech achoedzaY Foolishness may have golden offspring. I hope yours does.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

'Tis folly to be wise.

My brother calls me penny wise, pound foolish.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.