Definition of Foolishness

Foolishness

The quality of being foolish.

A foolish practice; an absurdity.

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Foolishness Quotations

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Sophocles

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
May Sarton

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
Afrika Bambaataa

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.
Afrika Bambaataa

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Alfred North Whitehead

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Jean de la Bruyere

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
Leon Kass

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
Randall Terry

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
John McCarthy

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
Hugh Leonard

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Sidney Hook

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Brock Yates

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them.
Alfred Sutro

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Foolishness Translations

foolishness in French is folie
foolishness in German is Torheit
foolishness in Italian is stoltezza

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