Quotes on Foolishness

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.