Quotes About Foolishness

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.

I want to explore the borders between being a genius and being an idiot.

I love being an idiot, and acting lets you be an idiot.

That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

I think it's funny when parents are idiots.

When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Sometimes I can be a little ignorant.

Truly, I live in dark times!The guileless word is folly. A smooth foreheadSuggests insensitivity. The man who laughsHas simply not yet hadThe terrible news.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.16

A man may tear a jewel From a sea monster's jaws, Cross a tumultuous sea Of raging tides, Or twine garlandwise A wrathful serpent on his head. But no man can alter The thoughts of an obstinate fool.

Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.

How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

This generation is a generation of risk takers. And not all the risks taken will be seen as real faith. Some will come to light as steps of foolishness and presumption. But they must be taken just the same. How else can we learn? Make room for risk takers in your life that don't bat a thousand. They will inspire you to the greatness available in serving a great God.

It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?