Quotes About Foolishness

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.

If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them

Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid

To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.

I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.