Quotes About Foolishness

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

What's the point? The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There's no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of its flaws. Getting them to see reason is a fool's errand.

You're just clever enough to be stupider than if you weren't clever at all

It is surprisingly easy—but then, really stupid decisions are always the easiest.

Aim not, if you are wise, to make water run uphill nor try pulling milk from the udders of a billy-goat.

The person who is too smart to love is truly an idiot.

It's a problem, you know, Paul, dealing with stupid people. You project your own intelligence and rationality onto a person who is a complete idiot, and he lets you down.

Toda unanimidade é burra.

It may make him overconfident. He may make foolish errors.

We are all weak, in one way or another. It does not matter the species. Sometimes that weakness is a strength in disguise. Sometimes it is our utter undoing. Sometimes it is both. The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him. And sometimes, the wise man is a fool.

If your lifemate is so enthralled with you that he would allow you such foolishness," Gregori replied softly, menacingly, "then I can do no other than protect you myself." "Don't you talk about Mikhail like that!" Raven was furious. You really know how to stir up the hornets' nest with the women, do you not? Mikhail demanded, even though he understood Gregori completely and felt him justified.

For it is written that if the wise man appears always stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

Careful crossing the street, Tommy called back to her as he crossed. [Jody is drunk] Ha! Jody said. I am a finely tuned predator. I am a superbeing. I -- And at that point she bounced her forehead off a light pole with a dull twang and was suddenly lying on her back, looking at the streetlights above her, which kept going out of focus, the bastards.

Oh, how the pillars of lust can crumble under the weight of stupidity.