Foolishness Quotes

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Richard P. Feynman

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.

Hugh Leonard

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Horace

When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity.

Ogwo David Emenike

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.

Jean Paul Sartre

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Jeffery Deaver

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

Christopher Paolini

Children and fools speak true

Proverb

He could see naught but vanity in beauty And naught but weakness in a fond caress And pitied men whose views of Christian duty Allowed indulgence in such foolishness.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Josh Billings

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Isaac Disraeli

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

George Bernard Shaw

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

William Shakespeare

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Measure For Measure

William Shakespeare

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

William Shakespeare

The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Confucius