Definition of Foolishness

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Definition of Foolishness
	Foolishness The quality of being foolish. A foolish practice; an absurdity. Related Definitions: Absurdity, An, Being, Foolish, Of, Practice, Quality, The

Foolishness Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Sophocles

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

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

Foolishness Translations

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

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