Quotes and Sayings about Foolishness
"We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast."
- Afrika Bambaataa
(Related: Foolishness, Now, Want)
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Foolishness, Man)
"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: People, Knowledge, Virtue, Foolishness, Solitude, Vanity, World)
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge, Foolishness, Nothing, Pain, Sun)
"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."
- Sacha Guitry
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, Foolishness)
"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
- Sidney Hook
(Related: Foolishness, Idealism, Ignorance)
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."
- Horace
(Related: Foolishness, Right, Silly)
"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."
- Leon Kass
(Related: Countries, Foolishness)
"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
(Related: Life, Time, Foolishness, Hate)
"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Intelligence, Foolishness, Information)
"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."
- Golda Meir
(Related: Men, Women, Children, Foolishness)
"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."
- William Osler
(Related: Age, Wisdom, Foolishness, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
- May Sarton
(Related: Discipline, Creation, Day, Foolishness, Living, Order, Play)
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Love, Curiosity, First, First love, Foolishness)
"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness."
- Sophocles
(Related: Sister, Foolishness, Wickedness)
"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."
- Alfred Sutro
(Related: Foolishness)
"For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness."
- Randall Terry
(Related: Religion, Christian, Foolishness, Practice)
"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."
- Alice Walker
(Related: People, Appearance, Foolishness, Fools)
"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."
- Alfred North Whitehead
(Related: Ideas, First, Foolishness)
"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."
- Brock Yates
(Related: Books, Foolishness, Racing)