Foolish Quotes

“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”
― Plato, The Republic

“If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“I've been wondering," Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going to lose them.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli, Also Known as Armchair Detective

“When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Well.’ Maud handed me a bandage. 'That was the most foolish thing you’ve ever done.’
'Don’t joke. We both know it isn’t.”
― Linsey Miller, Ruin of Stars

“And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“if you are foolish, foolish is going to stay out.”
― Ana Monnar

“A fool provokes a formidable enemy, then screams, 'Rescue me before he destroys me!”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The longer I live, the more I am inclined to the belief this earth is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
― Voltaire, Memnon, or Human Wisdom

“Boldness plus ignorance is a dangerous kind of foolishness.”
― Tyler Edwards, The Outlands

“We tediously parse the verb all the while ignoring the action demanded of us by the verb.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Mankind is averse to true wisdom because it will demand of us what we prefer not to give. Therefore we craft something that will give us everything that we want, and this we call wisdom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The fool will tell you that there is no God. Yet, the fool is the one who believes himself to be what he is not, and God not to be what He is.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We can raise our voices in some brazen speech gloriously proclaiming the pablum of men as the savior of mankind. Yet, the more the speeches, the emptier the men and greater the need for the very God that the speeches decry as pablum.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Running does not evidence the existence of a race.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Intelligence without wisdom is knowledge being stupid.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you’re going to be a fool, you’d better do it right.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If you’re fleeing something, there’s a good chance that the road you’re running down is circular.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The biggest battle that we fight is the belief that we can run from the battle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The giant only seems far away because we’ve yet to recognize that it’s as close as us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often human logic looks sound...until it’s held up against most anything else.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is a foolish when you consider yourslf that you know everything because the only God knows everything.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The fool doesn’t lurk in the shadows; he stands at the front, speaks the loudest, and gathers the largest crowd.”
― Egbearor Favour

“You will see the fool in others. But if you're honest, you may also see the fool in yourself.”
― Egbearor Favour

“There were times it made one happy to be a fool. It made you feel that you were driving straight back into the past.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blythes Are Quoted

“Men of wisdom reject the vice of impulse.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes it pays to be quiet, to pray, and to watch because once you open your mouth or walk in the flesh, what was once seen as intelligence may suddenly appear foolish.”
― Dr. Angela L Hood

“The difference between the wise and the foolish is that the wise make the hardest path easier for you and the foolish make the easiest path difficult for you.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih