Inspirational Quotes on Foolishness

“Those that disobey the commandments of God do so foolishly for themselves. Sin is folly, and sinners are the greatest fools.”

“Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.”

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”

“Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.”

“Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.”

“Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.”

“To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.”

“Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.”

“Oh, thrice fools are we, who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle, know not that there is a kingdom before them; then, let our Lord's sweet hand square us, and hammer us, and strike off the knots of pride, self-love, and world-worship, and infidelity, that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.”

“He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.”

“Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.”

“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!”

“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.”

“Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.”

“The fool wanders, a wise man travels.”

“What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath.”

“Do not assume that after regeneration the wise have advantage over the foolish in making spiritual progress. Unless they are more faithful and submissive, their better mental comprehension adds nothing to their intuitive knowledge.”

“Only a fool thinks he can fool God.”

“Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.”

“Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.”