For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don’t know why, become tarnished because of it.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Luthicer hummed. “You’re either brave or very foolish.” “What’s the difference?” (Eric)

An inextricable relationship between the foolishness and the selfishness is like that of an egg and a chicken. No one knows which came first and perhaps even none cares about it.

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of...

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

We find our own way to right action, and tread it as we go. He who tells his neighbour what he, the neighbour, should do in given circumstances is a fool. He does not and...

To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to the symphony of nature, to close your nostrils to the scents wafting on...

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...

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

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond’s shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

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

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

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

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

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which...

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful]...

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

I put the hop in IHOP, and jumped on my pan of pancakes and then on to Panama. That’s standard government issued foolishness right there.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools

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

What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?

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

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who’d caused the pain to heal it

Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!

We don’t have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

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...

But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.

I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.

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

Sento ancora la follia scorrermi dentro, ma ancora non ho scritto le parole che avrei voluto, la tigre mi è rimasta sulla schiena. Morirò con addosso quella figlia di puttana, ma almeno le ho dato...

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it’s when the idiot laughs at you.

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...