Quotes About Foolishness

A little learning is a dangerous thing and a good deal of it is suffocating.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

I could've picked somebody rational. But no, I had to fall in love with this arrogant idiot.

Arland had abandoned her the first chance he got. What did you expect? Did you expect he would come and take you by the hand and lead you to a seat at the host table? Yes. The answer was yes. Maud didn't expect it, but she wanted it. Stupid.

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

You will walk out of here when I'm finished and no doubt run straight into another foolish fight. That was a given.

El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.

Contra la estupidez, los propios dioses luchan en vano

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' I'm no god and I'll contend no longer.

Presumably, such is the folly of human beings, the prospects of intellectual suicide might not stop them from indulging their hatred

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

El hombre más irreversiblemente estúpido es aquel que ignora su sabiduría.

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

Proti hlouposti ani sami bohové nic nezmohou.

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

El aire fresco y el trabajo duro son remedios infalibles contra la estupidez del amor.

Con la edad se adquiere cierta humildad, Alexander. Mientras más años cumplo, más ignorante me siento. Sólo los jóvenes tienen explicación para todo. A tu edad se puede ser arrogante y no importa mucho hacer el ridículo —replicó ella secamente.