Quotes About Foolishness

Wilhelm thought, Why does it have to be me and my life that's discussed, and not him and his life? He would never allow it. But I am an idiot. I have no reserve. To me it can be done. I talk. I must ask for it. Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice. Why do I allow it?

You can't argue with success. Sure you can, Dahl said, when it's based on stupidity.

It is a wondrous human characteristic to be able to slip into and out of idiocy many times a day without noticing the change or accidentally killing innocent bystanders in the process.

Everything he talked about had a kind of logic to it, but so do many things that are nonsense.

Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.

Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things.

I find it useful to remember I can't always tell the difference between genius and stupidity. Neither can anyone else, at least not every time. So when a person who is otherwise smart says something that sounds dumb to me, I remind myself that, in this situation, I might be the dog.

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

El que por complacer a los demás, contra su gusto y sin necesidad, se fatiga corriendo tras la fortuna, los honores u otra cosa cualquiera, es siempre un loco.

lo que se toma por inteligencia suele ser vanidad y tontería.

Mefistófeles: Sexo desgraçado, sempre na ilusão! Seduzidos sempre, desde o pai Adão! Velhos ficam todos - mas inteligentes? Não caíste ainda em logros bastantes?

Be brave, and show them what you've got, [85] Have Fantasy with all her chorus, yes, Mind, Reason, Passion, Tears, the lot, But don't you leave out Foolishness.

Sonuçta dünyan?n bütün i?leri a?a??l?kt?r ; ba?kalar?n?n sözüyle, hiçbir tutkusu ya da bir gereksinimi olmaks?z?n, para, ?an ?eref ya da bilmem ne u?runa didinen biri her zaman bir budalad?r.

Es bleibt doch endlich nach wie vor Mit ihren hunderttausend Possen Die Welt ein einzig großer Tor

Vedi, io non riesco a capacitarmi che il genere umano abbia così poco cervello da rendersi ridicolo in modo tanto volgare.

Comme les pêches et les melons sount pour la bouche d'un baron, ainsi les verges et les bâtons sont pour les fous, dit Salomon.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Jer savrsenog protivrecja spoj ne shvata niti mudrac, nit' glupak, nit iko. Moj prijatelju, vestina je ova koliko drevna, toliko i nova. Vazda je covek sluzio se time: trime i jednim, i jednim i trime zabludu mesto istine da slavi. I tako brblja, druge uci tako neometano, po volji i vesto. Ko bi jos budalama da se bavi? Samo li cuje reci, obicno smatra svako da se pri tom, bez sumnje, mora i misliti nesto.

God knows why I should be that foolish

Stupid people always ignored good advice

The worse anyone feels, the worse treated he is. Fools elect fools.

There are two kinds of fools: one who says this is old and therefore good, and the other who says this is new and therefore better.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.