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Tag Name "Foolishness" (227)

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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
Vinod Khosla
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I have no time for babbling foolishness.” “Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.
Eoin Colfer
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Victor Hugo
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My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word jerk.
Ellen Goodman
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God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
Christina, Queen of Sweden
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In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
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It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
Publilius Syrus
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[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.
Groucho Marx
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Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible this is not so.
Theodore Roosevelt
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He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
Confucius
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It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.
Louie Giglio
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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
John Piper
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
Al-Ghazali
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Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.
S. J. Perelman
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
William Shenstone
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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Larry Niven
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There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
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We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.
Bertrand Russell
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
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He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.
Christopher Paolini
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Mark Twain
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