Quotes About Foolishness

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Silence is the wit of fools.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Rescuing people from the results of their own foolishness is really what customers service is all about. Customers rarely obey the rules. They expect you to rescue them whenever they do something stupid. Will you be a "rescuer," known far and wide for customer service, or will you steadfastly insist that your customers follow the proper procedures?

Mas o fato é que não é possível acumular coisa alguma. O acumular é uma ilusão. Por isso Deus chamou o rico de insensato.

He's old enough to know what's right, but young enough not to choose it. He wise enough to win the world, but fool enough to lose it.

He's old enough to know what's right, but young enough not to choose it. He's wise enough to win the world, but fool enough to lose it.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

If tragedy is about the fact that people are mortal, then comedy is about the fools we make of ourselves on the way to the grave.