Foolishness Quotes (65 quotes)
![]() | “The wisdom of God oft times 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.” ―Thomas S. Monson Source/Notes: Decisions BYU Devotional, February 6, 1977 |
![]() | “There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully.” ―François de La Rochefoucauld Source/Notes: Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678) |
![]() | “I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women — and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.” ―Osho Source/Notes: The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) |
![]() | “Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.” ―Golda Meir Source/Notes: As quoted in Newsweek (23 October 1972) |
![]() | “Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.” ―Louis Pasteur Source/Notes: As quoted in The Literary Digest (18 October 1902) |
![]() | “The foolishness of the great and the wealthy is an excellent source of revenue for the humble.” ―Antoine François Prévost Source/Notes: L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731) |
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