Quotes about Fools
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
— Mark Twain
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.
— Oscar Wilde
Winners will take what they know and share it with others.The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
— Anonymous
If we will not learn out of the Scriptures, we must learn out of the Turk's scabbard, until we find in our hurt that Christians are not to make war or resist evil. Fools must be chased with clubs.
— Martin Luther
Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
But there are more wicked men to be found than good; according to Eccles. 1:15: "The number of fools is infinite.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.
— Proverbs 14:9
Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
— Proverbs 1:7
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
— Edmund Burke
“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
— Jeremiah 4:22
Don't be quick to get angry, because anger is typical of fools" (Ecclesiastes 7:9). But Paul points out it is possible to be angry without sin when he says, "Be angry without sinning" (Ephesians 4:26).
— Darlene Zschech