Quotes About Foolishness

La connerie, c'est la décontraction de l'intelligence !

Leger died a Communist, having fallen once and for all for the greatest charlatanism of all times. It may be that, like many artists, he was stupid

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

What he found were "a few brilliant beacons in a fog of fools.

Si había que deshacerse, que fuera así: aceptando que somos todos tontos del culo. Tal vez entonces perderíamos el respecto a los tontos del culo de nuestros antepasados y abandonaríamos nuestras tradiciones de mierda, cuestionaríamos nuestras creencias, nacionalidades e identidades de mierda, borraríamos nuestras fronteras de mierda y conviviríamos todos juntos, todo lo bien que puede esperarse de una panda de tontos del culo.

thank you that we are unable to save ourselves and that each time we try, we fail. Have mercy on us. Be the strength in our weakness. Clear our heads of the foolishness of believing we can be our own gods. Steer our hearts to utter dependence on you. Amen.

I've grown to admire the humor of a God who uses foolish things to shame the wisdom of this world, and weaklings to remind the strong that they may not be as mighty as they think they are.

What do we do when the foolishness of the cross actually makes more sense than the wisdom of the sword?

When you embrace foolishness, you enable it to continue.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.

He pulled loose the ribbons of her bonnet and tossed the garment onto the opposite seat. He held her head against his shoulder and rested his cheek on top of it. He had no idea if she needed to be gathered in or not. But he needed to gather. "Idiot," he said. "You precious idiot, Elizabeth.

How could anyone who prided herself upon her intelligence and good sense have been so foolishly ignorant?

He had loved her as she had loved him. A foolish youthful emotion that was as insubstantial as a dream—and that left enough pain in its wake to cripple one for a lifetime.

I cannot imagine anyone having such a criminal lack of sense.

Cassie, Griff told you not to ride. Griff told you not to talk about the baby to the point you don't know a thing about what's to come. Griff told you a woman was unclean when she was carryin' a child. Griff mortgaged all your family heirlooms without telling you so you could have a useless new silk dress every year. Excuse me for speakin' ill of the dead, Cass, but your husband wasn't very smart, was he?

genius may have its limits but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Man, I cried, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it is you say.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it is you say.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life

Why. Do. People. Do. Stupid. Things. Because we're stupid, she said.