Foolish Man Quotes - Page 2

• Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Fools And Foolishness, Good Sense

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

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• The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Men, Fools Day

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• Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Religion, Dozen

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• It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

  Charley Reese

  Believe, Men, Status Quo

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• A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

  Laozi

  Men, Done, Action

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Men, Compassion

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• Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Passion, Men

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.

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• The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Usual

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• He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

  Alfred the Great

  Life, Education, Men

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• Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.

  John Balguy

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

  Tori Amos

  Men, Giving, Ink

  "Tori Amos On Her New Album, 'Gold Dust,' Drugs, Ghosts Writing Her Songs, Ageism And More". Interview with Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Men, House, Sand

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• You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his image in the water, you are only hurting yourself, O foolish man. When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

  Rumi

  Hurt, Hate, Men

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• A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Men, House, Wealth

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• I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

  L. Frank Baum

  Husband, Eye, Nursing

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “Ozma of Oz: American Literature”, p.105, VM eBooks

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• Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Men, Interesting

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  Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Death, Men, Two

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• Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.

  Manly Hall

  Wise, Lonely, Stars

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• I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.

  Hicham El Guerrouj

  Men, Sick, Mind

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• A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Clever, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

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• Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

  William Saroyan

  Pain, Mean, Men

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• My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little while, and it flows away. That's all I know about money. And I don't know, it flows and it's a river, but you can never, ever keep it. As an artist, I can't keep it. But hey, a man who dies with a cent in the bank is a foolish man. So I guess I'm going against the conservators. I'm a spendthrift.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Artist, Men, Cash Flow

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• The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Together

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews.

  Elias Chacour

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "Children of Ishmael: an interview with Fr Elias Chacour". Interview with Jim Forest, jimandnancyforest.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Drunk

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.496, U of Nebraska Press

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