Foolishness Quotes

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it" "The wise man does at once what the fool does finally" "Prejudices are what fools use for reason." "Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgment and misguide the mind What the weak head with strongest bias rules Is pride the never-failing vice of fools" "To bankrupt a fool, give him information" "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." "It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves" "Showing off is the fool's idea of glory." "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness" "The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them" "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish" "Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God" "To laugh is to risk appearing the fool" "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool"