Quotes About Foolishness

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

When we were young and foolish people said we had a death wish. If we live to be old and tired, we realize we had a life wish; and miss it often.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing.

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

I should have known better than to call upon the gods.

La estupidez del ser humano me hace gracia.

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Wer in der Liebe Gottes bleibt, geht nicht den vorgeschriebenen Weg der Vortrefflichkeit in der Welt, sondern eigene, unverständliche, oft törichte Wege.

Fools never learn from their mistakes; Smart people learn from their mistakes; Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.

Perhaps one of the truths that Dante is trying to convey to us in this passage is that we can only ascend into the joy of God when we lighten up; when we can look down and smile upon our foolishness. Chesterton once said that the devil cannot laugh at himself and that he fell from heaven because of his gravity and that angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

pretentiousness is closely allied to stupidity and that simplicity has a subtle but agreeable flavour.

Three-quarters of the expenditure of wit and the lies told out of vanity that have been squandered since the world began by people who in doing so merely diminish themselves have been squandered on inferiors.

Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots.

O sa ai necazuri, spuse bacanul. -E necesar din cand in cand, zise Fauna. Ca sa te simti intr-adevar bine, trebuie sa fii fraier macar o data in viata.

And the greatest foolishness of all lies in the fact that to do it at all, the writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. If he does not, the work is not worth even what it otherwise might have been.

He] languidly went through the motions, like a disbelieving angel, misplaced in all this adult foolishness.

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

My father used to say that stupid people think. (I really don't agree with him!)

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.