foolishness quotes

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

There is no sin except stupidity.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.