Quotes about Foolishness

"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has."

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

The folly isn't mine. It's God's folly. Even in the old days he never asked men to do what was reasonable.

If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Oh, a heart's a poor choice to follow. It's so easily hoodwinked.

Heaven and earth come together in the Unbegun, And all is foolishness, all is unknown, all is like The lights of an idiot, all is without mind! To obey is to close the beak and fall into Unbeginning.