Quotes about Foolishness

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Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14
Compromise is a stalling between two fools. — Stephen Fry
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent — Criss Jami, Killosophy
She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what — Jeffery Deaver, The Bodies Left Behind
Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all femin — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. — Colette
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn — Bertrand Russell
He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while. — Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his — H. Rider Haggard, She
Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness. — Sacha Guitry
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me eas — Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A per — Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignor — Witold Gombrowicz
Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. — Voltaire, Candide and The Maid of Orleans
It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs. — Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the mann — John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of 1929
Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He — Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass