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Quotes About Foolishness

Foolish boy," she'd said quietly as the two of them stood in the midst of the eerily blooming rose garden. "Now he will never have a chance to gain wisdom.
~ Nalini Singh
Only stupidity excuses ignorance.
~ Nalini Singh
The more illogical a fool's position, the more passionate he's likely to be about hanging on to it.
~ Unknown
Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.
~ Nancy Farmer
To the Greeks, this was not spiritual progress; it was regress. Why would anyone want to come back to the material world, the realm of evil and corruption? The whole idea was utter foolishness to the Greeks (1 Cor. 1:23 KJV).
~ Nancy Pearcey
what's life without a spice of stupidity
~ Nancy Springer
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
~ Napoleon
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible...
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is in the dictionary of fools
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Simpletons talk of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future.
~ Unknown
A sixth sense cannot make up for a total lack of common sense.
~ Natsuki Takaya
I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.
~ Neal Shusterman
El hombre natural no acepta las cosas del espíritu de Dios porque le son locura, no las puede comprender, porque se han de discernir espiritualmente".
~ Neville Goddard
Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it. It is the highest wisdom to know that in the living universe there is no destiny other than that created out of the imagination of man. There is no influence outside of the mind of man.
~ Neville Goddard
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem
~ Nick Bantock
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
~ Unknown
Me, I'll just continue to pretend I'm both blind and stupid, and brightly say the things other people find foolish, and so make the truth foolish.
~ Nicola Griffith
Making us feel intelligent is how nature notifies us that we are saying something stupid.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
To hope that the growing vulnerability of a world increasingly integrated by technology will not demand a total despotism is mere foolishness.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
In general, "historical necessity" turns out to be merely a name for human stupidity.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Verdad es aquello que cualquier imbécil refuta.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila