Quotes About Foolishness

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land!

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.

The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.

If we go out there thinking we're invulnerable, we'll get stupid. Stupid people die, and all too often, they take friends with them.

As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.

Mensen zijn dom. Op een trommel slaan om een beer aan het dansen te krijgen, terwijl we de sterren zouden willen ontroeren.

The smart person accepts. The idiot insists.

The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

He had listened to an American economist talk about how so-and-so was stupid and so-and-so was a fool, then said, "All your economic models are premised on people being smart and rational, and yet all the people you know are idiots.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

Christopher said to himself that only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: "the greater fool theory." Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay thousands for a tulip bulb (or for that matter an Internet stock), as long as there is an even greater fool out there willing to pay even more, doing so is the most logical thing in the world.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in.