Quotes About Foolishness

The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm, the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.

If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.

When you start feeling silly, you start doing silly things.

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

Men have become fools with their tools.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete and unrepresentative evidence. An essential corrollary of this appreciation should be an awareness of how often our everyday experience presents us with biased samples of information.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Of course, there's also the basic problem that some people just aren't very bright. And as we'll see, the people who are the most certain about being right tend to be the people with the least reason to have such self-confidence.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

He was in the far too familiar position of being amazed by his own stupidity.

Though we have been wise enough to shut and lock the door against an absolute monarchy, we at the same time have been foolish enough to put the crown in possession of the key.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

Celsus, in common with most of the Grecians, looked upon Christianity as a blind faith, that shunned the light of reason. In speaking of the Christians, he says: "They are forever repeating: 'Do not examine. Only believe, and thy faith will make thee blessed. Wisdom is a bad thing in life; foolishness is to be preferred.'" [272:1]

You don't know what you are talking about, and no one sounds so silly as one who tries to talk about something he knows nothing about.

Luck never just happens. What people call bad luck is just the result of their own foolishness or carelessness or both, and what people call good luck is just the result of their own wisdom and carefulness and common sense.

Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

Maybe I'm weak for music men. Maybe I'm weak, period. But I couldn't deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

Be careful," Serge admonished. "It's dumb out there.