Quotes About Foolishness

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.

Willa's lifelong service to the duty of proper order now seemed like an idiot's game.

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

Ka-mai, yes. Not just a fool, but ka's fool - a fool of destiny.

We had hoped. It is what we say on the other side, when our vision is shattered and we feel ourselves to be fools for trusting in something we couldn't even see.

All you need to avoid despair is irremediable stupidity or unlimited stubbornness.

when you pick an idiot for a job, you have to expect idiocy

The solution to your Jefferson cipher should be loading on my laptop as we speak. Our guys solved it." Had he heard right? The key? Found? After 175 years? Parrott was right—the captains would be thrilled. But there was still the matter of the foolishness that had just occurred. He could only hope he'd covered their tracks with no mistakes. If not, no cipher key would matter.

Qualunque sia il caso, lei è sparita dalla mia vita. È il prezzo che ho dovuto pagare per aver flirtato romanticamente con l'apocalisse. Sono stato così sciocco da credere di poter giocare con il caos, mentre era il caos a giocare con me.

Cualquier imbécil puede derribar un granero, pero para construirlo se necesita un carpintero

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.

After that comes the arrogance and sense of superiority that inevitably accompanies the production of successful lies (hypothetically successful lies—and that is one of the greatest dangers: apparently everyone is fooled, so everyone is stupid, except me. Everyone is stupid and fooled, by me—so I can get away with whatever I want). Finally, there is the proposition: "Being itself is susceptible to my manipulations. Thus, it deserves no respect.

We can turn everything into hell with just enough stupidity

Uno de los problemas de hoy es que los necios y los fanáticos están siempre seguros de sí mismos, mientras que los sabios están llenos de dudas.