Foolish Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

“People always more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser”

— Mark Twain

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

— Anonymous

“You have to be foolish to be wise”

— Becky Campbell

“By so much the more are we inwardly foolish, by how much we strive to seem outwardly wise”

— Jacob Cats

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

— Baron de Montesquieu

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average…

— John Ruskin

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most…

— Plato