bible and theology on Fools

Fools are without number.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is nothing else but this.

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

Only a fool thinks he can fool God.

The Hebrew word for “fool” is very close to the Hebrew for “noble,” with only one letter different, and it is sometimes only in the outcome of their lives that the people considered noble by the peopl...

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

The first type of fool in the Bible is the character that might be called the fool proper. Folly in a fallen world is obviously partly relativistic, and we are always wise to say, “Says who?” Differen...

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Better to be thought a fool—than to open your mouth and prove it.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

If a donkey brays at you, don't bray at him.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

What are you doing, O Magi? Do you adore a little Babe, in a wretched hovel, wrapped in miserable rags? Can this Child be truly God? … Are you become foolish, O Wise Men … Yes, these Wise Men have bec...

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

When Bob Dylan was recording Blood on the Tracks – possibly the single greatest album in popular music history – he had to deal with a junior recording engineer who “explained” to him that he was goin...

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how t...

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, b...

Leader: To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; People: The wise will hear and will learn; and one with understanding will listen to wisdom. Leader: To understand p...

“You are so wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?” “No!” cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. “With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a p...

“A highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astra...

If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea Party. The world says, mind your own business, and Jesus says, there is no such thing as your own business. The w...

In 1933, as Hitler’s Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the Jewish artist Marc Chagall painted Solitude. In the foreground, a seated man sits wrapped in a tallit, or prayer shawl. His right hand sup...

I am mended by my sickness, enriched by my poverty and strengthened by my weakness…. What fools are we, then, to frown upon our afflictions! These, how crabbed soever, are our best friends. They are n...

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.