Quotes About Foolishness

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me.

Thomas grunted. Might have been smarter for them to have left you alone. Now you know something. I made an exasperated sound. Yes. Those fools. By trying to kill me, they've revealed their very souls. I have them now. Thomas gave me a steady look. Being Mab's bitch has made you a pessimist. I am not a pessimist, I said loftily. Though that can't last. That made Thomas grin. Nice. Thank you.

hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.

I find it remarkable how often amateurs confuse courage with idiocy.

stupid is way more dangerous than actual evil, if only because there's so much more of it around.

Hell's bells," I muttered. "Harry, you idiot, when will you learn not to victory gloat?

Stupid's everywhere, every day.

Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.

Precisely. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making.

Goodness, think of what trouble they'd be in if Folly hadn't practiced.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

I had just been defeated by a literal hallucination built from denial and the most determined and pettily self-interested stupidity I had ever encountered.

Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.

A big assumption. And when you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

It looked like I'd sold my pottage for a mess of afterbirth, as the saying is. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped on.

Only fools venture where the spirits dread

That's all right. We may say what we daren't write. "And sing what is too foolish to say

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else...

I can laugh because I've known sadness. I am fearless because I have been afraid. And I am wise because I've been foolish before.

Everyones entitled to be stupid but you are abusing the privilege.

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.