Foolishness Quotes

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Ibn Gabirol

No one but a fool is always right.

David Hare

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

African Proverb

It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.

Darryl Somers

The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.

Italian Proverb

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Yiddish Proverb

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Michel de Montaigne

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Al Bernstein

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

John Churton Collins

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Ilka Chase

Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?

Gwynn Thomas

Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Gene Brown

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Yiddish Proverb

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Proverb

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moli

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Mark Twain