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Quotes About Foolishness

He's so stupid. Honestly, when he makes alphabet soup it spells out D-U-M-B.
~ Jack Gantos
A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash a check. The teller asks him to please identify himself. Nasrudin reaches in his pocket and pulls out a small mirror. Looking into it, he says, "Yep, that's me all right." Meditation
~ Jack Kornfield
I am persuaded that your people are foolish beyond any reasonable expectation. Not all of them. Obviously, there are many who are reasonable. Otherwise, you could never have reached this world. But the intelligence seems to be confined to a relatively few individuals. When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well.
~ Jack McDevitt
Stupidity is always expensive
~ Jack McDevitt
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.
~ Jack Zipes
Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.
~ Jackie Collins
I'm mostly laughing, because you're such an idiot.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.
~ Unknown
Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.
~ James A. Owen
Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.
~ James Allen
The boy is so stupid; to count to twenty-one he'd have to drop his pants.
~ Unknown
So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else.
~ Unknown
Oh! fools and blind, not to know the Master whose servant nature is.
~ Lyman Abbott
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
~ Lynda Barry
Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.
~ Lynn Austin
Recklessness is just stupidity pretending to be bravery. No one is fooled.
~ Unknown
We just have to remember that where we pay attention matters more than we know. Our minds and hearts are like dry sponges. What we focus on is what will soak in and saturate us. If it is something foolish, we will make foolish decisions. If it is wise, we will make wise decisions.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Our minds and hearts are like dry sponges. What we focus on is what will soak in and saturate us. If it is something foolish, we will make foolish decisions. If it is wise, we will make wise decisions.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
If we pay attention to foolish things or things that fuel foolishness in us, we will bankrupt our perspective. And we will be more likely to fall prey to Satan's schemes.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
If we aren't walking in wisdom, intimacy, and understanding with our Lord, we are walking in folly. And folly's ways lead to death.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Politicians are fools and the games they play are fools games.
~ M.J. Rose
Stop thinking like a madman, or you will end up acting like an ass.
~ Madeline Hunter
Most men do not know me for what I am." "Most men in my experience are fools," he said.
~ Madeline Miller
That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool.
~ Madeline Miller