Quotes About Foolishness

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds

Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

Foolish people imagine that what they imagine is somewhere else. That stuff is not made in any factory but their own.

Os homens trabalham à sombra de um erro, lançando ao solo para adubo o que têm de melhor. Por uma sina ilusória, vulgarmente chamada necessidade, desgastam-se a amontoar tesouros que a traça e a ferrugem estragarão e que surgem ladrões para roubar. É uma vida de imbecis, como perceberão ao fim dela, se não antes.

To retrieve the ill consequences of a foolish conduct, and by struggling manfully with distress to subdue it, is one of the noblest efforts of wisdom and virtue. Whoever, therefore, calls such a man fortunate, is guilty of no less impropriety in speech than he would be who should call the statuary or the poet fortunate who carved a Venus or who writ an Iliad.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

He would rather seem stupid any day than fatuous

One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.

perpetrated on a helpless world of idiots.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

You can't fix stupid.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.

Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures.

Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

If you follow a foolish ism, how are you an intelligent being?

Embellishing a story for whatever reason proves you're a liar. Doing it in front of someone who knows the truth proves your stupidity.

In a world of stupidity a thinking man is insane

You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.