Foolishness Quotes

392 quotes by 315 authors

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming… — Afrika Bambaataa
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… — Afrika Bambaataa
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the… — Alexander Graham Bell
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. — Josh Billings
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. — Josh Billings
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
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. — Lord Byron
But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to… — Benjamin Carson
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. — Cher
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho
Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a… — Malcolm X
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on… — Elbert Hubbard
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness. — Winston Churchill
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom. — Paul Tillich
To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all… — Ernest Becker
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children and fools speak true. — John Lyly

Who Wrote These Foolishness Quotes

315 authors contributed a total of 392 Foolishness Quotes, led by these top contributors: