Quotes About Foolishness

It's got the right combination of content, what Mackley calls the "Three S's": sex, stupidity, and schadenfreude.

was glaringly obvious that a new currency at Facebook scale would be a systemic risk — it would be big enough to break everything. Regulators and legislators had Libra's number immediately — they knew this kind of foolishness, and they knew that these Bitcoin venture capital bros were absolutely stupid and arrogant enough to do another 2008 financial crisis all by themselves.

This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. One might even call it the trump card of the stupid, since (and this is surely one of the tragedies of human existence) it is the one form of stupidity to which it is most difficult to come up with an intelligent response.

I was amazed at how many fools I ran into until I noticed the common denominator in all those interactions: me." Why

Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting for one brief hour upon a stage, then heard no more. I'll weep an ocean in my heart, if the world would give me time. But not now.

It is never too late to apply good sense as a corrective to stupidity.

15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight [nothing can be fixed]: and that which is wanting [lacking] cannot be numbered [counted]. Another interpretation of verse 15, above, might depict pessimism in dealing with people. It could be saying that people never learn their lessons, and that their foolishness seems to be infinite.

In a spiritual sense, carnal people cannot grasp the significance of God's Word unless they turn to God, accept His Word by faith, and seek spiritual understanding. "The carnal mind is enmity against God" (Romans 8:7). "The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (I Corinthians 2:14).

IQ-ul nu înseamn? mare lucru, spusese el într-un interviu. ?i Goering avea un IQ mare. Po?i fi idiot ?i a?a.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

When we are foolish God intervenes.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.