Quotes About Foolishness

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.

Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor.

15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

Estará escrito en el destino del hombre que sólo puede ser feliz antes de tener razón o después de haberla perdido? ¡Pobre insensato! Envidio tu locura, envidio el laberinto mental en que te pierdes.

No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

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.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools.

I do not suffer fools

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!

Quando o amor se vai, é lembrado não como amor, mas como algo diferente. Felizes são os ignorantes, pois esquecem por completo, e nunca estão conscientes da insensatez e da lascívia do passado, das longas e inúteis conversações.

I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...