Foolish Man Quotes

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

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.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

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

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

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

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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

The wise are wise only because they love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran: But thou, my soul, let thy brave thoughts disdain So coarse a purchase: O be thou a fan To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain: Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires: Thou art Heav'n's tasker, and thy God requires The purest of thy flow'r, as well as of thy fires.