Quotes About Foolishness

quotation from Einstein: 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.' I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so - he died." "Because he was stupid?" "It is the sin that is never forgiven and always punished, madame.

I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.

It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world.

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child? Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.

And anyway, a man has no business to let himself be made a fool of by a woman. It's his own look out if he does.

But remember this: Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and lo, in a minute they are become discoloured cornelians. . . Her voice deepened as she quoted: "A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream, and death comes as the end. . . .

Of course,' said Miss Marple, 'a lot of people are stupid. And stupid people get found out, whatever they do. But there are quite a number of people who aren't stupid, and one shudders to think of what they might accomplish unless they had very strongly rooted principles.

dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But nobody relishes the process.

But man was a ridiculous animal anyway....

so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly." Mr.

Decidedly it was the policy of an imbecile.

I remember a saying of my Great Aunt Fanny's. I was sixteen at the time and thought it particularly foolish." "Yes?" I inquired. "She used to say: 'The young people think the old people are fools; but the old people know the young people are fools!

It makes one feel such a fool," said Mrs. Oliver, ruefully, "not to be able to be definite.

Os tolos compram coisas que morrem nas primeiras geadas e aí desejam ter ficado com os girassóis e os bem-me-queres!

Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.

Cuántas veces no habré oído decir a una mujer inteligente a más no poder: "Edgardo dice...", como quien cita a una autoridad incontrovertible. Y eso cuando todo el mundo sabe que Edgardo es un perfecto idiota.

Muitas pessoas não me parecem nem boas, nem más, mas apenas bastante tolas, sabe?

The result of my newfound courage was climbing the waterfall tunnel, slipping and going over the falls and later diving into a whirlpool. Not very smart. But even though I pursued such foolishness, in the course of this one summer vacation this particular descendant of Abe Sadato became considerably more robust.

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.