Foolishness Quotes

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot