Quotes About Foolishness

I sifted and resifted my memories of Aeëtes, all those hours we had leaned against each other. That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool.

Such is the folly of humanity. Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?

Take a plunge, take a plunge . . . they're all crooks and gamblers anyway . . . take a plunge and come up with your hands full, pockets full, bankaccount full, vaults full of money. If I only dared take the risk. Fool to waste your time fuming about it.

I was guilty all right. Guilty of stupidity for allowing myself to fall into such a mess.

O wisdom of the world! and strength of the world! what are you when matched beside the foolishness and the weakness of the Christian? You are great in resources, manifold in methods, hopeful in prospects; but one thing you have not—and that is peace.

Any contractor who would construct a flat-roofed, two-storey building in Northern New Hampshire was enough of a moron to not know how many assholes a human being had.

Encore des conneries dans le fond du jardin

When the pig is over-roasted, Huzza for folly O! And the cheese is over-toasted, Huzza for folly O!

He's sitting in his room right now writing some foolishness. I says, `What's that you writing now, boy?' And he say, `I'm writing about being a weenie vendor.' Ain't that terrible? Who want to read a story like that? You know how much he brought home from that weenie place today? Four dollars. How I'm gonna pay off that man?

The only remedy, in fact, is an enhanced skepticism that would resolutely associate too evident optimism with probable foolishness and that would not associate intelligence with the acquisition, the deployment, or, for that matter, the administration of large sums of money.

To these there are no answers; no one knows, and anyone who presumes to answer does not know he doesn't know. But one thing is certain: there will be another of these episodes and yet more beyond. Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly." Nor could he do so as regards his own. He was to lose

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

He's not the fool for breaking your heart. You're the fool for going back to get it hurt.

Age is no guarantee of maturity. I have found that if a person was foolish and immature throughout their lifetime, when they reach old age, they are still foolish and immature.

I am strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm alive because I'm a fighter. I am wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.