Quotes About Foolishness

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

Feel-good answers are not enough. Twice, the book of Proverbs tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."51

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good that he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: when you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

People like to believe that they have several options open to them, but this is only a justification for attempting to avoid their battles. A warrior understands the folly of seeking escapisms, for he knows the world is pervaded by power, which comes at him like the waves of the sea. He either mounts the crest of those waves and surfs them, or he goes down under.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

Human being is the only creature that is stupid enough to feel as intelligent and intelligent enough to understand its stupidity!

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling and whimsical, it may make an excellent motto for an essay. But few, indeed, of the many wise apophthegms which have been uttered from the time of the Seven Sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard have prevented a single foolish action.

Never did man make worse use of his wits than thou hast done.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

Perhaps he would wake up the next morning realizing that he'd made an utter ass of himself, but there were worse animals than the ass. And in London you saw asses wandering around everywhere. Nobody seemed to mind, much. Dennis had spent an awful lot of time not making an ass of himself, and he didn't have anything to show for it. The

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

There's no defense against stupidity.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

He understood and accepted that humans were basically ridiculous.