Quotes About Foolishness

Yeah, I would love to play someone really dumb, just really foolish.

It is foolish to compare Shahid and Ishaan. Shahid has made it on his own. So will Ishaan. He did not get a Majid Majidi film because he is Shahid Kapoor's brother.

There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry loneliness about with her as a leper carries his scabs. 'No one can do anything for me: no one can do anything against me.

Th' world's full o' jackasses brayin' an' they never bray nowt but lies.

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees—this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.

Only fools and the dead are content.

Hasn't God always chosen things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise? - Mary

The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.

But you invite ..." "I invite a bit of military nonsense." "That's what I ..." "Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson." "What lesson?" "The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness.

They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.

Te lupti cu vise? Te certi cu umbre? Te misti ca intr-un somn adanc? Timpul a trecut. Viata ti s-a luat. Te-ai amarat cu fleacuri. Esti victima nesabuintei tale.

Past civilizations without number have foundered on the rocks of equal justice. Such foolishness destroys the natural hierarchies which are far more important. Any individual takes on significance only in his relationship to your total society.

Here, they showed us the Walden Fallacy in ultimate foolishness, explaining: Given any species which reproduces by genetic mingling such that every individual is a unique specimen, all attempts to impose a decision matrix based on assumed uniform behavior will prove lethal. — The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

Piatra e grea ?i nisipul apas?, dar furia neghiobului e o povar? care le-ntrece.

I am surrounded by such useless clods. If I scattered sand before this creature and told him it was grain, he'd peck at it.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.