Quotes About Foolishness

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.