Quotes About Foolishness

Why are dumb brutes so damned smart, anyway?' 'Why are us smart folk so often stupidly brutal, Quick Ben?' Trull asked. 'Stop trying to confuse me in my state of animal terror, Edur.

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

Wise, because wisdom is to be in love with life, whereas foolishness is to be ashamed of love

Greed, she thought, he was so greedy, but stupid too.

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

It is not against the law to be a nincompoop. If so, I would have a rap sheet as long as my arm.

When I was young and foolish, and I had no money, I bought myself the carcass of a Jaguar E-Type. It was a rust bucket. I spent all my university savings trying to fix the car. I never did, and I finally sold it to recover at least part of my investment.

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

It's good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.""You only say that because you have no shame.

Broken hearts made faults and fools of us all.

Tash had warned me about running. It's for idiots and children.

We are all blockheads.

humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.

they will not be so foolish." "Men can be very foolish indeed," Laurence said, "and I must, I do, beg you not to enter into a resolution, which should prevent my being able to face death with equanimity. You should make me a coward, if I must fear that my death should turn you against my country." "But I do not at all want you to face death with equanimity

was still young and foolish enough at the time to believe myself and my magic likely to elicit admiration instead of alarm, and

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, Please leave your foolishness at home. But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

I was a fool, and I will always be a fool, and there will never, never, be a last day of school.

Foolish and unsuccessful people talk carelessly and aimlessly, act carelessly and aimlessly, and allow everything that comes along good, bad, and different to lodge in their mind.

The only difference between them is that a man who sees controls his folly, while his fellow men can't.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

Silence makes even idiots seem wise for a minute.

Vrijeme ?ini s tijelom ono što glupost ?ini s dušom. Kvari ga.

Hablar es de necios; callar es de cobardes; escuchar es de sabios.

You believe what it's possible to believe, not what you want to believe. Unless you're an idiot, in which case it's the other way around.