Quotes about Foolishness

"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool."
-Sir George Savile

"I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way."
-Danny Kaye

"A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends."
-Arabian Proverb

"A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness."
-Malayan Proverb

"Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools."
-Gene Brown

"A fool and his money are soon parted."
-Thomas Tusser

"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."
-Sacha Guitry

"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
-Sidney Hook

"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
-John Mccarthy