Quotes About Foolishness

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Look, if you think crude, mindless stubbornness such a gift, you've lost your sense of balance

Be warned my son, no man is free from error, but the wise and prudent man, When he has fallen into evil courses Does not persist but tries to find amendment It is the stubborn man who is the fool

Mark this, my son: all people fall into sin. But sinning, they are not for ever lost Hapless and helpless, who can make amends And has not set their face against repentance. Only a fool is governed by self-will.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

There is a thin line of difference in being courageous and foolish!

Man was bestowed with intelligence, only to gauge his foolishness!

A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn't realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.

Even if doors are open to the fool, he/she will still be foolish in accessing them.

Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots.

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

You must learn to spend your money wisely...The main thing is not to have too much money to spend. This I have always found bewildering and a sure pathway to extravagance and foolishness. You only need to look about you among the unhappy members of the sporting set to see what happens when there is too much loose money in the bank.

With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with her flattering lips she seduced him. Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to slaughter…He did not know it would cost his life—PROVERBS 7:21-23.

I never make stupid mistakes - only very, very clever ones.

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

I think we were very foolish, you and I.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.