Quotes About Foolishness

Cartoonist Henri Arnold said, "The wise man questions himself, the fool others.

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.

the Mackenzies regarded all this foolishness with the deepest respect, as if it had some genuine significance. They may have suffered from an indiscriminate sense of the past or from an inability to understand that the past plays no part in our happiness.

But once it's been agreed when that real-world decision has to happen, why make it before the deadline arrives? Why Well, it would be foolish, because if you can wait longer, two incredibly important things may happen.: You may get new information. You may get new ideas. So why would you make a decision when you don't need to?

Break up, to make up, that's all we do. First you love me, then you hate me, that's a game for fools.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

They say even death can't cure an idiot.-Ririn

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

They were not willfully cruel, you know. Only foolish. Misguided by their learning, their ambition, their own self-deceiving blindness.

When I was nineteen, I told a thirty- year-old man what a fool I had been when I was seventeen. 'We were always,' he said glancing down, 'a fool two years ago.

What fools men are to raze a city, destroying tombs, and temples, and sacred places, when they are so soon to die themselves.

No one is ever too old to do a foolish thing.

La ignorancia y la inexperiencia son el pedestal del orgullo; quítale el pedestal, y el orgullo pronto caerá.

To expect wages after doing no work, prosperity after making no effort, or learning after neglecting books is utter foolishness. But to expect heaven without faith in Christ, or the kingdom of God without being born again, or the crown of glory without the cross and a holy walk – all this is greater folly still and yet more common. Sadly, this is the foolishness of the world!

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. I'm not even a god.

never attribute to malice that which could be explained by stupidity.

Sometimes smart people can do very, very stupid things.

Why bother? Why in the world would I need a new man in my life at this time? Such foolishness. I might get a dog, though, one of those cute Shih Tzus or a Pomeranian. Their messes are easier to dispose of than those of men, who are sloppier. I would have my dog neutered, though, so I wouldn't have to deal with those foolish impulses when another dog strolls by and they do that silly tail sniffing. How gross.