Quotes about Fools
Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
- Proverbs 16:22
Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
- Proverbs 19:29
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1
When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.
- Ecclesiastes 5:4
It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.
- Ecclesiastes 7:5
The calm words of the wise are heeded over the shouts of a ruler among fools.
- Ecclesiastes 9:17
The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
- Isaiah 19:13
And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
- Isaiah 35:8
who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
- Isaiah 44:25
“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
A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.
- Jeremiah 50:36
You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?
- Matthew 23:17