Inspirational Quotes on Foolishness

“Only a fool thinks he can fool God.”

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

“As idle talk is often concealed under the garb of jesting, and wit, the Apostle Paul expressly condemns pleasantry, which is so agreeable as to seem a praiseworthy virtue, as a part of foolish talking.”

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”

“Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.”

“Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.”

“Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.”

“Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.”

“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!”

“Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.”

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”

“Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.”

“Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.”

“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.”

“There is nothing more foolish than an act of wickedness; there is no wisdom equal to that of obeying God.”

“The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.”

“I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.”

“Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.”

“Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.”

“The wise man considers what he wants, and the fool what he abounds in.”