Quotes About Foolishness

Stupidity was when you took risks for no good reason. Courage was when you took a calculated risk in order to accomplish something important. Had

If you're going to die, you might as well be doing something really, really stupid.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

That isn't greatness. That's just foolishness.

He doesn't know as much as he thinks," Preservation whispered. "That is his weakness. The . . . weakness . . . of all clever men

Sometimes stupid is right," Megan said, then paused. "Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.

The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.

Let the Vorin believe as they wish—the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.

Someone doesn't need to be the least bit funny to be an utter clown.

Sometimes, the answers we need don't match the questions we're asking." He looked up at me. "And sometimes, the coward makes fools of wiser men.

I have practice following fools in their reckless pursuits.

She looked up at me, and though there were tears in the corners of her eyes, she wasn't weeping. She was laughing. "You," she said, "are an utter fool, David Charleston. I wish you weren't also so adorable.

If they cannot make you less foolish, at least let them give you hope.

Unknowing ignorance is preferred to informed stupidity.

If there is one thing I can guarantee you about humankind, Last Listener, it is this: Provide them with a sword, and they will find a way to impale themselves upon it.

All people are foolish, just in different ways

The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar," Wit said. "And the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first—but also exploit the first—while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.

So if you start at the center of the peak, you can see that for every five days you spend being average, you spend one day being mildly stupid and one day mildly smart. For every five of those, you spend one day moderately stupid and one day moderately genius. For every five days like that . . 

Cleverness never seems quite so impressive when regarded outside the moment

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance a very dangerous person.

Aveva l'abitudine di dire che una buona volontà priva di una dose di buon senso poteva causare catastrofi ancora più grandi delle conseguenze di azioni compiute con malanimo e stupidità.

quand le monde offre tant de motifs de joie, souffrir est le fait d'un imbécile

I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.