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Quotes About Foolishness

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
~ Samuel Palmer
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
~ Albert Einstein
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
~ Albert Einstein
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
~ Frank Zappa
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
~ Albert Einstein
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
~ Albert Einstein
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and also a good deal more foolish.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
~ Bible
Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long.
~ Martin Luther
Love is being stupid together.
~ Paul Valery
I am brave because I know my fear, I am strong because I know my weakness, I am wise because I've been foolish. I love because I've been hurt.
~ Unknown
He was abusing the imbeciles' licence to do the unthinkable.
~ Unknown
no better than Bellyfluff, Sillystuff, or Starchyruff;
~ Unknown
retribution was coming for the stupid, not the smart.
~ Marlon James
They never grow less stupid, men who believe in belief.
~ Marlon James
This day of torment, of craziness, of foolishness—only love can make it end in happiness and joy. —W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal
~ Martha Finley
This was no time to be an idiot.
~ Martha Wells
If I was wrong, I'd probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse.
~ Martha Wells
A noisy bed-frame is the last sound many a man has heard. I do not intend to join the august company of deceased fools.
~ Unknown
Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Some people are so smart that they're dumb about the most important things.
~ Unknown
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
~ Martin Luther