Quotes About Foolishness

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

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

Only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly...

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

I say "very little doubt" rather than "no doubt" because, of course, I can be fooled as easily as anyone. The stupidest men are the ones who think they can't be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don't know what they don't know.

The stupidest men are the ones who think they can't be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don't know what they don't know.

So Ema and I went our separate ways. I got home, still lost in my thoughts. I had figured out what had happened in the Caldwell household. Most of it, anyway. I was having trouble making all the pieces fit. There was, I knew, only one way to get the answers I needed. It was going to involve putting myself in more peril. I didn't relish that either. There was a fine line between being daringly brave and foolishly suicidal. I wasn't in the mood to find out just how fine. But

It's better to be silent than to be a fool

That was foolish of me, she said coldly while she reloaded the gun. I don't need a gun. If I had to kill him, I could do it with my bare hands. I love you, too, Jason smiled at her.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.5 On

Ordinary he was insane, But he had lucid moments when he was merely Stupid.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!