Quotes about Foolishness
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
- Paul Tillich
It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.
- Tamera Alexander
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
- Aristotle
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
- Herman Melville
A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
- John Bunyan
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
- Victor Hugo
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
- Victor Hugo
The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
- Victor Hugo
The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
- Victor Hugo
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
- GK Chesterton
Showing off is the fools's idea of glory.
- Bruce Lee