Foolishness Quotes

Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.

~ Anonymous

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

~ George Horace Lorimer

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

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Luthicer hummed. You're either brave or very foolish. What's the difference? (Eric)

~ Shannon A. Thompson

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

Wilderness is wise, civilization enjoys the joy of foolishness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass. And I’m apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I’m lost.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream. This is a common experience with all of us. And so it was that I, the modern, often entered into my dreaming, and in the consequent strange dual personality was both actor and spectator. And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive.

~ Jack London

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

~ Cher

Foolishness is darkness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.

~ Jeremiah 4 22

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

~ Euripides

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.

~ Caleb Ricketts

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

~ Caleb Ricketts

Youth is a failing only tooeasily outgrown.

~ Agatha Christie

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

~ Judith Mcnaught

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

~ Ian Fleming

Madness is blackness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the 'conditioning' of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foolish enough to choose or be led to stand on the other. Thus we are male or female, old or young, of the East of West. By temperament we are introvert or extrovert, leaders of followers, all for action or striving rather to be. It surely follows that we should be more tolerant of the other fellow, equally right/wrong, and be less swift to judge him with our ignorant, lop-sided view and definite disapproval. In any event, do we have to express an opinion, presume to judge?

~ Christmas Humphreys

When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

~ Nick Cave

I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it.

~ Anne Brontë

Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

~ Milan Kundera

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

~ Amit Kalantri

Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One can repent of a sin and have done with it, but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it.

~ Jetta Carleton

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

~ Murad S. Shah

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.

~ Ian Mcdonald

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly

Don't fool yourself by look so humblewhereas the thing you want is respect.

~ Toba Beta

Its foolishness to claim that one is faithful towards God, when one is habitual of breaking the trust of those who love and respect him.

~ Santosh Thankachan