Quotes About Foolishness

Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God.

Tempus edax homo edacior; which I willingly thus translate; Time is blind, man is stupid.

L'amour, c'est la bêtise de l'homme et l'esprit de Dieu.

Aw. Men are stupid. You might as well learn that now. Look at bull moose. They ram into each other at full speed. Same with Dall sheep.

Yearning for a life you don't understand is like staring at the sun. Your foolishness will destroy you.

Der Vorteil der Klugheit besteht darin, daß man sich dumm stellen kann. Das Gegenteil ist schon schwieriger.

Wenn du so lang wärst, wie du dumm bist, könntst du aus der Dachrinne saufen.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues.

There are but two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.

There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.

Beauty,' Brimstone had scoffed once. 'Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.

So what,' said Zuzana. 'They had to be pretty stupid butterflies to fall for him anyway. You'll grow new ones with more sense. New wise butterflies.

He hoped at least that Lazlo saw how foolish it all was. Sarai wasn't like that. Lazlo was lucky. Well, Sarai was dead, so not lucky lucky.

Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off." "Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.

Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it." "Of course they don't. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probably expect you to have more sense." "That expectation never seems to serve them very well, does it?

Stupid people make bad rulers.

Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.

I hate when I'm an idiot and I don't know it. I like to be aware of my idiocy, to really revel in it, take pictures.

How could you betray me, Incarceron? How could you let me fall? I thought I was your son. It seems I am your fool. —Songs of Sapphique

People laugh at things they don't understand. It makes them feel safe. But it's a false feeling. They are no safer. They just feel as if they are. The world is full of people too foolish to judge the difference.