Quotes About Foolishness

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

Anyone with any brains understands that he is destined to lead a stupid life because there is no other kind.

Really, can they be this blind? Can people be so abysmally stupid and live?

I was ready to learn of the liberties a boy from an exemplary household could take when he stopped working to please everyone with his juvenile purity and discovered the guilty enjoyment of secretly acting on his own. -nor had I understood till then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.

What am I to do, what can any woman do, when her husband is such a fool as to desire a woman for a moment, rather than the woman he is pledged to for eternity?

There was I, fool that I am, thinking that you were being loving to me," he says shortly. "I thought you were touching me tenderly. I thought that our marriage vows had moved your heart. I thought that you were resting your head on my shoulder for affection. Fool that I am." I

Looking from one bright delighted face to another I thought for one illuminating moment what fools we were to make this one man's temper the very centre of our lives

Boys fell for so many things you wouldn't think they'd believe. It was really incredible. None of her friends back home had been quite so stupid.

L'ennemi est con, il croit que c'est nous l'ennemi alors que c'est lui

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

Surely you don't consider me so inflated with the theater as not even to know that for anyone in his right mind a sensible few are more terrifying than a foolish many.

wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something

there is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offences, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom; and he who is under the influence of the latter fancies that he knows all about matters of which he knows nothing.

Las opiniones buenas no son las de los sabios, y las malas las de los necios?

all men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves—they are the rulers of Men

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

Ajencis," he continued, "once wrote that all men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves—they are the rulers of Men . . .

Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world. —

Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.

Perhaps one day I'd be made a saint—the patron saint of fools and lovers, if those terms were not exactly the same.