Best Foolish Man Quotes

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The wise are wise only because they love.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

I don’t want to give too much ink to foolish men.

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran: But thou, my soul, let thy brave thoughts disdain So coarse a purchase: O be thou a fan To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow’d grain: Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires: Thou art Heav’n’s tasker, and thy God requires The purest of thy flow’r, as well as of thy fires.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.

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

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

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

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little while, and it flows away. That’s all I know about money. And I don’t know, it flows and it’s a river, but you can never, ever keep it. As an artist, I can’t keep it. But hey, a man who dies with a cent in the bank is a foolish man. So I guess I’m going against the conservators. I’m a spendthrift.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

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

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn’t.