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Quotes About Foolishness

Heaven and earth come together in the Unbegun, And all is foolishness, all is unknown, all is like The lights of an idiot, all is without mind! To obey is to close the beak and fall into Unbeginning.
~ Thomas Merton
Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Hay vida en todas partes, hasta en el fondo del mar. Y por todas partes la extingue la estupidez humana
~ Katherine Neville
What a mess this was. Robbers too stupid to ask for money, and a victim too stupid to pretend that she didn't have any.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
People in love always make fools of themselves.
~ Kathryn Shay
That asshat couldn't think his way through a fart without coaching.
~ Kathy Reichs
All this time, and you're…still such idiots.
~ Katsura Hoshino
Every jackass thinks he's got horse sense.
~ KEN ALSTAD
No fue sino hasta que sucumbimos ante la tentación que pudimos tomar conciencia de la insensatez de nuestros deseos
~ Kenneth Goldsmith
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, pride, and arrogance; As blind men use to bear their noses higher Than those that have their eyes and sight entire.
~ Butler
We are the fools of Time and Terror: Days Steal on us, and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
~ byron lord ii
I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom.
~ C.G. Jung
CHARLES SPURGEON once preached on the foolishness of pride, calling it "a groundless thing" and "a brainless thing" as well as "the maddest thing that can exist."1 But despite the sheer folly and unreasonableness of pride, it manifests its stubborn presence in countless ways within all of us. Even the disciples of Jesus weren't immune; in fact, they were prime offenders.
~ C.J. Mahaney
Even idiots sometimes have a way with words. And some words have sharp tongues.
~ Cameron Dokey
He may be good-looking, but he's got no more sense than a pailful of earthworms.
~ Cameron Dokey
Grandfather had a saying: If you know a lot, know enough to make people respect you. If you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you.
~ Camron Wright
Love makes fools of us all, I fear.
~ Candace Camp
It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.
~ Gayle Forman
Se necesita un tipo de ingenuidad, o tal vez sólo estupidez, saber cómo terminarán las cosas y todavía esperar lo contrario.
~ Gayle Forman
It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.
~ Gayle Forman
If "best years ahead" is the answer, then "things stupid people say" is the question.
~ Gena Showalter
For whan a man hath over-greet a wit,Ful oft hym happeth to mysusen it.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Aquello tuvo el efecto que por lo general tienen los buenos libros. Hizo más tontos a los tontos, más listos a los listos y los miles restantes quedaron ilesos.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg