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Quotes About Foolishness

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~ Khalil Gibran
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
~ Lord Byron
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
~ Christopher Buckley
The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.
~ Eric Wolf
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
~ Peter Ustinov
You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
~ Harlan Ellison
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
~ Francois Rabelais
I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.
~ Jack Black
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
~ Steve Martin
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
~ Aristotle
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
~ Jane Austen
The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
~ John Cleese
And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.
~ Mira Grant
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
~ Samuel Butler
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
~ Scott Adams
All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
~ Elbert Hubbard
You know you're dealing with a numpty when her saving grace is that she didn't help to cover up a murder.
~ Rosen Trevithick