Foolishness Quotes

392 quotes by 315 authors

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. — Rudyard Kipling
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. — Bruce Lee
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… — Hugh Leonard
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people… — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Golda Meir
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. — H. L. Mencken
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. — Moliere
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
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. — Edgar Allan Poe
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness. — Rumi
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. — William Shakespeare
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. — George Bernard Shaw
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. — George Bernard Shaw
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of… — Jane Smiley
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if… — Hunter S. Thompson
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. — Mark Twain
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and… — Paul Valery

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