305 Quotes About Foolishness

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

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.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

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

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.