Quotes About Foolishness

Just so, lo, thus does it fare with us. For he who seems the wisest, by Jesus, is the greatest fool, when it comes to the proof. And he who seems the most honest is a thief. That shall you come to know, ere that I leave you, when I have made an end of my tale.

Lo, what said King Solomon, who can teach us so well? 'Do not befriend an angry man, and walk not along the way with a madman, lest you repent.' I will no further say.

Things that have been foolishly done, in the hope of favorable Fortune, will never come to a good end.' And, as the same Seneca says, 'The more clear and the more shining that Fortune is, the more brittle and the sooner broken is she.

A wys wyf, if that she kan hir good, Shal beren him on hond the cow is wood.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

think men make more mistakes by being too clever than by being too good

It's unwise to be born; it's unwise to be married; it's unwise to live; and it's unwise to die. - Buhon

I call it improper pride to let fool's notions hinder you from doing a good action. There's no sort of work, said Caleb, with fervor, putting out his hand and moving it up and down to mark his emphasis, that could ever be done well, if you minded what fools say. You must have it inside you that your plan is right, and that plan you must follow.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour--or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.

A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

But he had something else to curse--his own viscious folly, which now seemed as mad and unaccountable to him as almost all our follies and vices do when their promptings have long passed away.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and appear a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Giants have an immemorial right to stupidity and insolent abuse.

Tal como Vesálio, não posso impedir a ignorância e o rancor das pessoas. Não podemos orientar o nosso comportamento em função das tolices dos outros, que são sempre imprevisíveis.

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

Impossible is the word for fools in my dictionary.

Words are the money of fools.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.