Quotes about Foolishness
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
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
— Bruce Lee
How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish?
— Herman Melville
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
— St. John Chrysostom
When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.
— John Maxwell
We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.
— Louie Giglio
I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
— Charles Spurgeon
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
— Seneca
I've grown to admire the humor of a God who uses foolish things to shame the wisdom of this world, and weaklings to remind the strong that they may not be as mighty as they think they are.
— Shane Claiborne