Quotes About Foolishness

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

People often say that the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try to avoid it.

Love is an excuse to be stupid

La brujería es la salsa que los idiotas vierten sobre el fracaso para ocultar el sabor de su incompetencia.

It is impossible to win an argument with an ignorant man

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

Fools copy proverbs

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.

What was so wrong with us? We were young, healthy, matched in every way. Live and be happy. No, I had to show my strength, be moody. What a fool. And I didn't understand that I was a fool; after all, I do have some brains, but I couldn't stop myself.

Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.

To fear an inner life, she thought, was the greatest foolishness. It was like fearing a breath of air. Why did people find it harder to admit to a universe within than without? Why trust, for a moment, one's own absurd measurement of either?

No podemos contar con la ayuda de los dioses. Ellos no ayudan a los necios.

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Common sense was not as common as the Deity might wish for. Indeed, not even the angelic choirs were entirely free of a certain vice known as silliness.