Quotes About Foolishness

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

Stupid can't fix stupid.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination.

The standard by which we will be judged and by which we should evaluate ourselves is not the pragmatic standard of the world. Being church and being disciples of Christ is not like driving a Plymouth to Dallas. While the world should look upon Jesus's life and ministry as failures and what he calls us to be as foolish, futile, and contrary to our nature, the Word teaches the church a new meaning of success and calls us to follow him.

At least now I know what I only intuited before: there's a hired killer after every publisher. This killer may be distinguished, he may be illiterate, but he's in the pay of the darkest interests. And sometimes-oh, the cosmic irony-those interests, so vain and foolish, are our own.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

And a Fool is supposed to be wise?

If a man hits you once, he'll hit you again, they say. And the same is true for lying. But I stayed, and I listened and I believed. What a fool I've been!

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. Let's start again.

fell silent. "When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. Let's start

Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I

We're men, Rick. We're idiots. Ask Mel," he said. "Yeah.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

stupidity can be as bad as malice

to slide halfway to stupid and stop was rare indeed.

Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—

Anyone who desires to see the gods face-to-face is a great fool

Knowing what I know now…it would be harder. But I would hope…I would pray, Royse, that the gods would still lend me such foolishness in my need.