Quotes About Foolishness

_Stulti est dixisse, Non putaram_.

Man is a most unwise, and a most wise, being. The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and when time is given to it, as a species it almost always acts right.

That dude," he snorted. "The damn fool, he would tread on his own balls just as quick as he would on his neighbor's

Ecclesiastes 1:15, "The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.

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

This plan looks like foolishness to earthbound philosophers. How can man comprehend a plan so based on love and servitude that his own deliverance and restoration is achieved by the death of the very "Lord of glory" (2:8)?

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. —AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT.

Quien no vive trágicamente se vuelve idiota. Vivir trágicamente es tomar el camino de la locura y del suicidio a corto plazo. Esto que digo implica tanto idiotez cuanto locura. No

If stupid people didn't insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools,And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

All fools have still an itching to deride

Half-learn'd witlings

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.