Quotes about Foolishness

We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

Solomon said if you want to be wise you run with the wise; if you want to be a fool, you run with fools.

If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out

Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.