Quotes About Foolhardiness

All brave men are slightly stupid.

That fine line between bravery and stupidity is endlessly debated – the difference really doesn't matter.

Ammon Hennacy, a Catholic Worker, said, "Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual.

We can turn everything into hell with just enough stupidity

Ignorance makes you very bold.

God cannot save them from fools.

I love stupid plans.

The skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.]

A menudo en la vida, cuando mejor crees que van las cosas, es cuando más cerca estás de pifiarla a lo grande. Una cagada épica y espantosa que antes de cometerla te parecerá una magnífica idea. Tan buena que irás cantando y bailando hacia ella, como una cucaracha que se zambulle en un barreño de insecticida haciendo un doble tirabuzón.

The charge of the Light Brigade was forever memorialized as a moment of glorious sacrifice, as needless slaughters ordered by shortsighted generals so often are.

Courage with fear is wisdom; courage without fear is destructiveness

a bold MechWarrior is one who manages to survive his own stupidity, and a hero is a bold MechWarrior who survives rescuing other bold MechWarriors from even greater stupidity.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

There are times when you can't do the sensible thing, when you can't act like a responsible adult at all; you just have to do whatever insane thing comes into your head. When bad people do it they end up murderers, when good people do it they end up heroes, and when the rest of do it we end up looking like total idiots. But when's that ever stopped us?

Fortune favors the brave, I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself.

Bravado usually is ignorance,' Bottle snapped back.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.