Quotes About Foolishness

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself.

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish and dull with regard to externals. Do not desire to be thought to know anything; and though you should appear to others to be somebody, distrust yourself. For be assured, it is not easy at once to keep your will in harmony with nature and to secure externals; but while you are absorbed in the one, you must of necessity neglect the other. XIV

Cómo se llama a los que hacen caso de cualquier apariencia? — Locos

Are the Trojans wise or foolish? If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.

Six years is a considerable time in human life, and if it be true that the witty remarks one makes at a dinner party seem peculiarly foolish the next morning, how much more does the enthusiasm of 1930 appear foolish in 1936.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Si je m'intéresse à ce que pensent les gens cons, je n'aurai plus de temps à ce que pensent les gens intelligents.

Se mi interesso a quello che pensano i cretini, non avrò più tempo per quello che pensano le persone intelligenti.

If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait.

Querido, sabido es que la envidia y la maledicencia humana no tienen fin. Pues si bien la inteligencia tiene un limite, la tontería y la malicia no tienen fondo visible o alcanzable

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

It is a human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

Si cinquante millions de gens disent une sottise, ça n'en reste pas moins une sottise.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

Hij zei alleen: 'De moffen kunnen het niet winnen. Ze zijn zo stom. Even hebben stomme mensen altijd een voordeel, omdat intelligente mensen niet kunnen voorspellen wat ze gaan doen, juist omdat het zo stom is. Met schaken wint een beginner het soms ook ineens van iemand die het al goed kan. Maar dat is maar één keer. En op den duur zullen de geallieerden het zeker winnen van die hysterische varkens.' Ik hoopte dat hij gelijk had.

Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy.

All powerful people make foolish decisions and end up in humiliating and embarrassing situations, as well as wielding their power.

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.