Quotes About Foolishness

It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.

Question is are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Hay dos buenos trucos para triunfar siempre. Uno: hacerse el idiota; otro : serlo.

Un hombre que se enamora es siempre un imbécil elevado al cubo. Cuando se tratra de un individuo genial, ese individuo escribe La Divina Comedia (caso Dante Alighieri) y le amarga la vida para siempre a la humanidad. Y, por el contrario, cuando se trata de un hombre vulgar, ese hombre hace oposiciones a Hacienda, se casa en la Parroquia (caso Juan Sánchez) y se amarga la vida para siempre a sí mismo.

Hay dos sistemas de conseguir la felicidad: uno, hacerse el idiota; otro, serlo.

El ridículo es una especie de roña que el enfermo siempre descubre tarde, cuando ya se tendió a su alrededor un cordón sanitario.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

When our hearts turn from the Lord, they always turn toward foolishness, to things that won't satisfy and to seasons that will be filled with regret. When our hearts turn from the Lord, we move toward implosion.

foolishly optimistic

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.

we've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

The more stupid one is, the more he thinks he thinks he knows.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

an idiot with delusions of military adequacy, but I expected better from the Guards. Not much, but a little.

Being smart and acting stupid are two different things.

Alles, was gigantische Formen annimmt, kann imponieren, auch die Dummheit.

Who understands war: the solders? the homeless ones? Mussolini? Or the leaders of the English and the Americans? No, nobody understands war, they only think they do. Maybe the earth that drinks up the blood understands it and says: "How foolish is man. Of all the animals that lives upon me, he is the cleverest and the most foolish.

We have the wisdom of ages. You have the stupidity of youth!

Ignore him," Goldenflower advised. "He's so full of himself that he's got no room left for brains.

There was a saying in Provence: "Those foolish enough to keep a snake as a companion will get bitten sooner or later".

I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or later.

People are often short-sighted and stupid, right up to the point where they're fucking perceptive—that point usually being the most inconvenient moment possible.

I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity.