Quotes About Foolishness

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, " she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Os políticos nunca se atrevem a criticar o povo, que muitas vezes é vil e cobarde e insensato, nunca o censuram nem lhe repreendem a conduta, antes o elogiam invariavelmente, quando pouco costuma ter de elogiável, seja o de que sítio for.

The very person that such a client so dislikes is the person whom he has been allowing, strangely enough, to control his life by remote control. In reaction to the hated person he has been doing all he does over against that person. He is not free, but is bound by the very person whom he dislikes, and yet his anger burns so intensely that he is blinded to the foolishness of his pendulum action.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Nici inteligen?a, nici talentul, nici geniul nu l-au împiedicat vreodat? pe om s? se în?ele. Ba s-ar zice c?, din contr?, ele îl ajut? s? se cufunde ?i mai departe în ceea ce constituie profunzimea ?i sumbra str?lucire a r?t?cirii.

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

Pray you now forget, and forgive: I am old and foolish

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

Dangerous enough to enter an unknown community when you were armed and strong; folly to do so from a position of weakness.

Între eroare È™i prostie se poate observa un soi de înrudire È™i chiar o complicitate secret? pe care nimic, de-a lungul timpului, n-a izbutit s-o înl?ture.

No she wouldn't," Miles said. "An ass is an ass

I'm doing this because I'm insane. Doesn't my mad cackle make me sound insane?

Ahlak?n bahts?zl??? : her ÅŸeyi daha iyi bilmesi ve bu yüzden de hiçbir ÅŸey öÄŸrenememesi.

There was playing with fire, and then there was setting yourself on fire.

when I was nineteen years old and an idiot

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. —COLETTE