Quotes About Foolishness

Din pasiunea gratuita a cunoasterii, din obsesia adevarului, cei pe care ii pretuim ca oameni inteligenti se descurca de obicei mai prost in viata decat prostii si ajung uneori sa-si neglijeze interesele si chiar sa lucreze impotriva lor, pastrand, totusi, cum spuneam la inceput, loc destul pentru prostia propriu-zisa. Deci inteligenta nu e in fond decat o prostie heteronoma.

We are all stupid. The smartest person is just a little less stupid than the rest of us.

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Yes," said Mamma, "this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

I can dodge folly without backing into fear. - Nero Wolfe in "The Doorbell Rang

If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.

DN: I know a certain human with his brains in his, his other end.

Caec sunt ducs caecrum. (Matthew 15.14:

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

The gospel is not a summary of "the necessary truths of reason"; rather, it is a revelation that shatters and reshapes human reason in light of God's foolishness.

people's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

But if it is crazy to turn down the 100 bets, the logic of Samuelson's argument is just reversed; you should not turn down one! Shlomo and I called this phenomenon "myopic loss aversion". The only way you can ever take 100 attractive bets is by first taking the first one, and it is only thinking about the bet in isolation that fools you into turning it down.

What else is there to say to a bear? 'Apologize!' I tell him. People very stupid. They forget everything--where they come from, where they go. I say, 'Don't worry. People leaving this world very soon. Then the bear get top bunk to himself again.

Yes," she said, looking off somewhere. "I want Ã¢â'¬Â¦ my own true love." Her own true love. The outrageous simplicity, modesty, and arrogance of it took my breath away. It seemed to me, then and now, a wish that everyone had a right to, but that only the very foolish or the terminally naïve trouble themselves over.

Piper McLean, [Annabeth] grumbled, that was without a doubt the dumbest risk I've ever seen anyone take, and I date a dumb risk-taker.

Most everything is incredibly stupid.