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Quotes About Foolishness

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
~ Franz Kafka
It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
~ Franz Kafka
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.
~ Franz Kafka
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
~ Chris Lowe
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
~ Emma Goldman
I never thought America would be stupid enough to put this idiot in the White House. Up until a half hour before they declared Trump the winner, I still thought that it wouldn't happen. I never thought that we, as a nation, had fallen so much that we would be foolish enough to do that.
~ Ron Stallworth
The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.
~ Holly Black
Asino tu nascesti, ad asino morrai. [An ass you were born; an ass you will die.]
~ Rodney Bolt
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Bertrand Russell writes that the painful thing "about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
~ Rollo May
When a man close to sixty decides to break with a young woman whom he loves, and who loves him, what would you call it? — Damned stupidity, sir. — Yes, damned stupidity; in other words, 'good sense'.
~ Romain Gary
Or, il ne s'agissait nullement d'un délirant mais d'un cas extrême de cette connerie renseignée, informée sur tout, qui sait, qui « connaît » et à qui « on ne la fait pas ».
~ Romain Gary
Il n'est pas possible d'être aussi con, murmura-t-elle lorsque je lui fis part de mon intention de rejoindre la Pologne, coûte que coûte. Je ne comprends même pas qu'on ne t'ait pas pris dans l'armée, con comme tu es.
~ Romain Gary
You can't fix stupid!
~ Ron White
We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid!
~ Ron White
There is no cure for stupid.
~ Ron White
You undergo your own incarceration. You may witness your demise piece by piece. You may be one kind of fool who never gets enough or another who gets too much.
~ Louise Erdrich
Hiçbir ÅŸey aç?klanamaz. Dünyan?n tek bildiÄŸi ÅŸey uyurken bir o yana bir bu yana dönen biri gibi sizi öldürmektir, dünya uyurken üstünüze aband???nda, uyuyan birinin pireleri ezdiÄŸi gibi. Böylesine bir ölüm pek ahmakça olurdu, diye düÅŸündüm, herkes gibi yani. İnsanlara güvenmek demek kendini az?c?k öldürtmekle eÅŸdeÄŸerdir.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Il y a bien des façons d'être condamné à mort. Ah combien n'aurais-je pas donné à ce moment-là pour être en prison au lieu d'être ici moi crétin Pour avoir par exemple quand c'était si facile prévoyant volé quelque chose quelque part quand il en était temps encore. On ne pense à rien
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
On en a donc rigolé comme des cornichons.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Når menneskenes had ikke medfører nogen risiko, bliver deres dumhed snart overbevist, motiverne kommer ganske af sig selv.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein