Foolishness Quotes · Page 8

“Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.”

— Amit Kalantri

I often give myself very good advice, but I very seldom take it.

— Anonymous

Who would've thought? I made a fool out of myself because of my love for you.

— Anonymous

“There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.”

— Anurag Shourie

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

— George Santayana

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

— Frank Herbert

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

— Dean Koontz

“The fool attempts to predict the next big wave while ignoring the tide.”

— James Rozoff

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish.…

— Confucius

“There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread,…

— G.K. Chesterton

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

— Alice Walker

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various…

— Jane Smiley

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

— Anonymous

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

— Hermann Hesse

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources…

— Theodore Roosevelt

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.

— Muhammad

“Neno moja kutoka mdomoni mwako linaweza kukuletea madhara makubwa. Fikiria kwanza maana ya kitu unachofikiria (ambacho tayari umekisema kichwani mwako) kabla ya…

— Enock Maregesi

The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of…

— Swami Vivekananda

All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived…

— Paulo Coelho

“How arrogant you are To think your wretched Self so singular! The disappointments of this world will die In less time than…

— Farid ud-Din Attar

She cried when I left her, now, I cry to forget her. Oh, how foolish I was to ever want to leave…

— Anonymous

“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The best thing about haters is that they show themselves up; sometimes out of sheer foolishness, sometimes in ignorance of their own…

— Kevin Keenoo

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

— Seneca the Younger

“I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Well,if you think I am a fool and waste,then let time teach me,as it taught you once.

— Zarnab

“I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine.”

— Jeanette Winterson

All mistakes have purposes and all purposes will have mistakes

— Enrique Alcala

“Stubbornness is determination stripped of wisdom.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.”

— Monica Ali

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

— Vinod Khosla

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

— Thornton Wilder

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you

— Amit Kalantri

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Confucius

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

— Henry David Thoreau

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

— Mark Twain