Quotes About Foolishness

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

Per lo studioso e leader religioso arabo 'AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« T?lib (che non è un mio parente), mantenere le distanze da una persona ignorante equivale a stare in compagnia di un saggio.

Je préférerais être bête et antifragile qu'extrêmement intelligent et fragile, à n'importe quel moment.

The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise. The modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy wrote a piece in 1915 after Philostratus' adage "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.

suckers try to be right, nonsuckers try to make the buck, or: Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Selfish courage is not courage. A foolish gambler is not committing an act of courage, especially if he is risking other people's funds or has a family to feed.*4

what's more, he believed that collectively they were even bigger suckers than they were individually.

For Tony, the distinction in life isn't True or False, but rather sucker or nonsucker.

companies foolishly believed that all they needed was to win the majority. No, you idiots.

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.

people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...

You'll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.

Do I look feeble to you Actually, yes. Well, looks can be deceiving. For instance, when I met you, I thought you look reasonably intelligent.

What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?

Tranq'd by your own gun,Lev says.How pathetic.

think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity. He

Esta noche seremos testigos del espectáculo de la estupidez y la tragedia humana. Mañana lo viviremos.

You'll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.

The scythedom was cursed with idiots.

I think all young women are cursed with a streaks of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.

Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.

By a fatal law, a genius is always an idiot.

The one vice beyond redemption is to do bad things out of stupidity.

La necedad, el error, el pecado, la tacañería, Ocupan nuestros espíritus y trabajan nuestros cuerpos, Y alimentamos nuestros amables remordimientos, Como los mendigos nutren su miseria.