Quotes About Foolishness

I could've fallen for someone steady. Dependable. Well-grounded. But nooo, I had to lose my head over this idiot.

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Extraordinary, how single lives just fold into the whole mess, over and over again, all caught up in the greater swirl. Spinning round and round, and ever downward, it seems. Ever downward. Fools, all of us, to think we can swim clear of that current.

It is a fool's curse, to measure oneself in endless dissatisfaction.

Only fools think the past is invisible

Es el ignorante quien encuentra una causa y se aferra a ella, ya que ahí radica la ilusión del significado. Fe, un rey, una reina o un emperador, o una venganza... El bastión completo de los bobos.

Not all instincts guide one to behaviours of survival. Life is mired in stupidity, after all, and the smarter the life, the stupider it can be.

T]he real meaning of 'tradition' was ... 'stupidity on purpose.