Quotes About Foolishness

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.

I have no time for babbling foolishness." "Don't be so hasty," said Victor. "There's always time for babbling.

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

Celui qui s'expose par ses propos n'est qu'un sot. (L'abîme)

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.

I'm not going to force some theory on a mystery and make foolishness of it, just because that is what people who talk about it normally do.

one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are possible.

You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool's end.

Vais conhecer muitos idiotas na vida. Se te magoarem, lembra-te que é porque são estupidos. Assim, não vais reagir à sua crueldade, porque não há nada pior do que ser amargo e vingativo. mantem sempre a tua dignidade e sê verdadeira contigo mesma.

Garrison wrote in his memo to Hoar. "There is no place in Mogadishu we cannot go and be successful in a fight. There are plenty of places we can go and be stupid.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic?

Truth is not anchored to the ground by driven piles. It can float and take to the air; it is light and lovely and delicate. It is feminine as well as masculine. It is often gentle, and sometimes it can even make a fool of itself—but when it does it calls down God (who protects weak creatures), and suddenly its foolishness becomes a blazing, piercing light.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

One can almost always achieve surprise in war by suddenly doing something that is truly stupid, but surprise alone is scarcely victory.

As a very young man, Frank Gresham found the life to which he was thus introduced agreeable enough. He consoled himself as best he might for the blue looks with which he was greeted by his own party, and took his revenge by consorting more thoroughly than ever with his political adversaries. Foolishly, like a foolish moth, he flew to the bright light, and, like the moths, of course he burnt his wings.