Quotes About Foolishness

Fear isn't a weakness. Anyone who's never been afraid is a fool.

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

By reading, a man already having some wisdom can gain far more; but it is equally true that reading can make a man already inclined toward foolishness far, far more foolish.

I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.

It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

Love makes us stupid, sometimes.

Me río de mí mismo cuando soy ese infeliz que se mira el ombligo y cree saber mucho de la vida.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.

Man was bestowed with intelligence, only to gauge his foolishness!"

We think intelligently yet act foolishly!

Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts...

**(C)(P)-RAS CARDO SPEAKS:- MY LEGACIES HAVE BEEN SHARED WITH THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD OVER THE YEARS OF MY LIFE. THOSE WHO THINK THEY CAN STEAL IT ARE LIKE FOOLISH DOGS BARKING AT FLYING BIRDS, OR THOSE THINKING THEY CAN HOLD SMOKE IN THEIR HANDS, THE TRUTH IS-IT LIVES WITHIN THEM. IT IS MORE ABOUT MEMORIES THAN IT IS WITH MONEY OR MATERIAL WEALTH AND VANITY. I WILL LIVE ON FOREVER. THIS IS IMMORTALITY!

Most men act real stupid trying to restrain the emotions of an emotionally strong and tenacious woman. They often find themselves in an -emotional quick sand- the more they wiggle, the deeper they sink-after someone dies of course! what stupidity!

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Dolgan: 'Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when 'tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.