Quotes About Foolishness

Even a prince may be a fool

From prideful wisdom one falls into simple stupidity

Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician's trickery?

Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician's trickery? I see how devoutly you wish it, for your old horrors to crumble as dust. Yet they await in the soil as white bones for men to uncover.

It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were.

The worst negotiator in the world is a man who believes he's clever.

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Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them. Carla

Orice prost poate s? intre într-o b?taie, dar numai un înÈ›elept È™tie cum s? se fereasc? de ele.

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

Stupid to the power of stupid.

Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power.

Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.

There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

Wishers were ever fools

They have a plentiful lack of wit.