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Quotes About Foolishness

The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness.
~ Tim Dorsey
A fool can never be made to question his own wisdom. And George Groves is very foolish. He believes his own nonsense. He cannot stay with me for 12 rounds. He's not tough enough.
~ Carl Froch
Fools are without number.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest.
~ O. Henry
And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
~ O. Henry
Why were men such fools, that they created the very hurts for themselves that they most feared?
~ Omair Ahmad
Only imbeciles are innocent.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Aptall?k kötülüÄŸün özrü olamaz.
~ Orhan Pamuk
pag. 131 Tell me the, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
~ Orhan Pamuk
Lo primero que aprendí en la escuela fue que había gente que era tonta, y lo segundo que algunos eran más tontos todavía.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Bu çirkin ve iÄŸrenç dünyada ancak aptallar mutlu olabilir.
~ Orhan Pamuk
AÅŸk m? insan? budala yap?yor, yoksa yaln?zca budalalar m? â??k oluyor? Y?llard?r bohçac?l?k, çöpçatanl?k yap?yorum, bunun cevab?n? bilemiyorum. Birbirlerine tutuldukça daha zekileÅŸen, daha bir kurnaz olup ak?ll?ca dolaplar çeviren bir çifti, hele bir erkeÄŸi tan?mak isterdim
~ Orhan Pamuk
To-morrow! it is a period nowhere to be found in all the hoary registers of time, unless perchance in the fool's calendar. Wisdom
~ Orison Swett Marden
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
~ Orson Scott Card
Rigg, said Father, you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway
~ Orson Scott Card
If you think that," said Bean, "you're an idiot." "Actually, I do think that, and I'm not an idiot.
~ Orson Scott Card
Individually, human beings are all dolts.>
~ Orson Scott Card
God made us with death inside, and also with intelligence. We have our seventy years or so, perhaps ninety, with care in the mountains of Georgia, a hundred and thirty is not unheard of, though I personally believe they are all liars. They would claim to be immortal if they thought they could get away with it. We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time.
~ Orson Scott Card
There is no sin except stupidity.
~ Oscar Wilde
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
~ Oscar Wilde
Irony is wasted on the stupid
~ Oscar Wilde
Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity: General George S. Patton.
~ Colum McCann
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
~ Confucius