Quotes Tagged "foolishness"

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.