Foolishness Quotes

Be willing for purpose; it pays huge returns on investment. And along the journey, those who dis your willing sacrifice(s) will ponder their own foolishness.

~ T.f. Hodge

Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness.

~ Samuel Beckett

To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

~ Criss Jami

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

~ Jane Austen

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which kind of pisses me off.

~ Kelly Thompson

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

~ Raheel Farooq

To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their intelligence and humanity. It seems to be a normal although unfortunate case that the great many of us consciously abhor ignorance in others yet subconsciously practice it ourselves: as naivety is apparent and well-known to inflict its damage upon oneself; whereas the alternative and the easier, ignorance, its damage upon others.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

More often than not, the foolishness of our humanity drives us to destroy the very things that we need to keep ourselves from destroying ourselves. And because that’s the case, God will never allow us to destroy Christmas.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

~ Mike Norton

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

~ Angela Carter

Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be something that got me high marks. I had an amused glimmering of a notion at that point: If I ever turned out to be a complete and utter fool, I could wind up running the whole kingdom. It was something to consider.

~ Peter David

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

~ Peter David

The madness in the heart is the state of mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Madness is witlessness’s.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

~ Amit Kalantri

Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power.

~ Gugu Mona

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

~ Ruta Sepetys

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

~ Anurag Shourie

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

~ Criss Jami

I know you don't believe what you teach. But I believe all what you teach. Either I am the fool or you are.

~ Prinx Maurice

I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.

~ Lucy N. Colman

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

~ Milan Kundera

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Anthony Liccione

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

~ Mark Slouka