Quotes About Foolishness

For now I had five children by him: the only work perhaps that fools are good for.

how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases—viz. that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

they are not asham'd to sin, and yet are asham'd to repent; not asham'd of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are asham'd of the returning...

las personas muy inteligentes pueden hacer cosas muy estúpidas.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn't know how things played out.

No soy una enamorada, soy una tonta

The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are. That's what I discovered about myself last night. I told myself I was wandering around like a lost soul, and then I saw that I was lost.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

"Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do somethin' like this — and totally redeem yourself! Ha Ha!"

Where love is the case, the doctor is an ass.

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has."

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.

An angry man is always a stupid man.

Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature.

Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it. Only

The cleverest people commit occasional lapses into stupidity—just as the stupid people light up with gleams of intelligence at certain times. You may have shown your usual good sense in conducting your affairs on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the week. But it doesn't at all follow from this, that you may not make a fool of yourself on Thursday.

In general, the wise in all ages have always said the same things, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done the opposite; and so it will continue. For, as Voltaire says, we shall leave the world as foolish and wicked as we found it."65

My work is visionary or imaginative. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care...

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool

I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness, And put on Intellect; or my thund'rous hammer shall drive thee To wrath, which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.