Quotes about Foolishness
Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,
- Proverbs 26:18
The prudent see danger and take cover; but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
- Proverbs 27:12
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
- Proverbs 27:22
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
- Proverbs 28:22
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
- Ecclesiastes 2:16
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
- Ecclesiastes 4:13
What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
- Ecclesiastes 6:8
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 7:4
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
- Ecclesiastes 7:9