Quotes About Foolishness

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.

Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly.

Ojalá Critón, que la mayoría fuera capaz de llevar a cabo los mayores males, con tal de que fuera capaz de realizar los mayores bienes, que entonces todo iría bellamente. Mas, por el contrario, de ninguna de las dos cosas son capaces, que no pueden hacer ni lo sensato ni lo insensato, sino tan solo lo que les salga a la ventura

yea dost thou fall upon thy face? thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit!

Há muita incoerência sem sentido no mundo, a maior parte fruto de estupidez.

Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool.

Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.

Be not foolish, O my soul, nor become deaf in the ear of thine heart with the tumult of thy folly. Hearken thou too. The Word itself calleth thee to return: and there is the place of rest imperturbable, where love is not forsaken, if itself forsaketh not.

But what shall men do who cannot find anything wise to say, because they are interpreting foolish things?

I lighted upon that bold woman, simple and knoweth nothing, shadowed out in Solomon, sitting at the door, and saying, Eat ye bread of secrecies willingly, and drink ye stolen waters which are sweet: she seduced me, because she found my soul dwelling abroad in the eye of my flesh, and ruminating on such food as through it I had devoured.

Klug sein hat noch nie einen Menschen an Dummheiten gehindert.

It was always the same, the whole pack throughout history who called cautious people cowards, humane people weak, only to be at a loss themselves in the hour of disaster that they had rashly conjured up. Because the pack were always the same. They had mocked Cassandra in Troy, Jeremiah in Jerusalem, and I had never before understood the tragedy of those great figures as I did now, in a time so like theirs.

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Stupid people and their stupid people ways!

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

The truth is for suckers, Johnny Boy!