Quotes about Foolishness
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
— Robert Brault
One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.
— Robert Brault
Jealousy and stupidity really do most of the harm that is done in the world.
— LM Montgomery
An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way.
— Aesop
I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.
— Aesop
O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.
— Aesop
We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.
— Alain de Botton
What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We shall never again try to convince a fool by reason, for it is both useless and dangerous.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Anti-Semitism was clearly not just anti-Christian and immoral but also quite foolish.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
Why did Rehoboam make such a foolish decision? The Scripture says, "So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken" (1 Kings 12:15). Two foolish decisions were made, in two instances good advice was rejected and harmful or foolish advice was followed. Both instances are attributed to the sovereign work of God guiding the minds of the kings to accomplish His will.
— Jerry Bridges
Coward," Pablo said bitterly. "You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish." "Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly," said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase.
— Ernest Hemingway