Quotes & Sayings About Fools And Foolishness

And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool. — Sophocles

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity — Munia Khan

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes — Robert Jordan

Since dugpas wished to get you out of here, where you were safe, how
else should they expel you than by causing you to expel yourselves by
violence? When fools make war they expend their resources squandering
money and life and food until the victor loses with the vanquished,
and another, who is wiser, overwhelms them both. No dugpa would do
such foolishness. He sacrifices little dugpas, even as the governments
send soldiers to be slain, because there are always plenty who will
fill the lower ranks. But one little sleepy, stupid, belly-loving
dugpa is as useful to him as an army that a government flatters and
sends to its death; because he wages war by causing his enemy to
make mistakes, and he wins not by what he himself does, but through
the self-destroying acts of whomsoever he would conquer. — Talbot Mundy

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart. — Raheel Farooq

Compromise is a stalling between two fools. — Stephen Fry

You must think I'm a fool to even consider rejecting him.'
'My lady, I am a professional fool. I can say with certainty that you do not have the makings of one.'
She smirked. 'Then that's a relief.'
'Is it? Have you something against fools?'
'Not at all. Only, if I were as natural at foolishness as I am at poetry, I might try to take your position from you, and you seem so very well suited to it. — Marissa Meyer

Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull — Jayden Hunter

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness. — Alexandre Dumas

He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming ... Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream. — Zhuangzi

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness. — Muhammad

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them. — Bryant McGill

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness. — Blaise Pascal

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again. — George W. Bush

The magi, as you know, were wise men
wonderfully wise men
who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi. — O. Henry

To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to the symphony of nature, to close your nostrils to the scents wafting on the breeze, to close your mouth to the delicacies of nourishment, to close your hands to the feel of luxury, to close your mind to the ability to think, and to close your heart to the only love that can penetrate the depths of the soul. For in Him all things consist, in Him we live, and move, and have our being, and without Him we cannot help but be fools. — J.E.B. Spredemann

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. — Voltaire

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. — Moliere

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things. — Jack London

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

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. — Bertrand Russell

Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others — Bangambiki Habyarimana

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity. — Jean Baudrillard

There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread, but rather that they let out what devils intend to do. — G.K. Chesterton

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you. — Amit Kalantri

World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one! — Raheel Farooq

If you think my acts are foolishness; the foolishness may be in the fools eye. — Sophocles

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you. — Raheel Farooq

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness. — Debasish Mridha

1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become 'fools' so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. — Anonymous

It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times — Munia Khan

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so? — H. Rider Haggard

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. — Alice Walker

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself. — Seneca The Younger

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools. — Bryant McGill

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools — Gene Brown