Foolishness Quotes

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw)
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. View quote
Alice Walker
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. View quote
Golda Meir
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Remember, the wisdom of God may appear as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness. View quote
Robert Jordan
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. View quote
Lillian Hellman
Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes. (Nhat Hanh)
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. View quote
Sacha Guitry
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. View quote
Horace
I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities. They are now aware of the particular community making a living by spreading the foolishness. People have begun to hate god, religion, caste, mythologies (puranas) and so on. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions? View quote
Linda Sue Park
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
A physical man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know [them], because they are examined spiritually. However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man. View quote
Paul
Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness. View quote
Melina Marchetta
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. (Jane Smiley)
Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works. View quote
Brock Yates
I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along. View quote
Ginnifer Goodwin
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time. View quote
Hugh Leonard