Quotes About Foolishness

God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!

As Sir William Osler once said, "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Setiap orang bisa membunuh dengan darah panas, tanpa akal sehat. Tapi akal sehat adalah yang diminta sang raja pembunuh. Akal sehat mengatakan kepada Zulaika bahwa ia tidak mungkin berhasil dalam dua serangan melawan laki-laki yang jauh lebih besar dan lebih kuat dari padanya.

Whether I am a fool or a villain I know not; but this is certain, I am also most deserving of pity—perhaps more than she. My soul has been spoiled by the world, my imagination is unquiet, my heart insatiate. To me everything is of little moment. I become as easily accustomed to grief as to joy, and my life grows emptier day by day.

Tout dans ce monde est absurde : la nature est bête, la destinée est simplette, et la vie ne vaut pas un kopeck.

Y llegó a la conclusión de que la cuestión fundamental no es: ¿sabían o no sabían? sino: ¿es inocente un hombre cuando no sabe?, ¿un idiota que ocupa el trono está libre de toda culpa sólo por ser idiota?

If Olga had been a little more foolish, she would have found herself quite pretty. But since she was an intelligent girl, she considered herself much uglier than she really was, for she was actually neither ugly nor pretty

Se un uomo fosse responsabile solo di ciò di cui è cosciente, gli idioti sarebbero assolti in anticipo da qualsiasi colpa.

Edhe më budallai mund ta joshë një grua. Por duhet të dish dhe si ta lësh; nga kjo dallohet një burrë i pjekur.

Y llegó a la conclusión de que la cuestión fundamental no es: ¿sabían o no sabían?, sino: ¿es inocente el hombre cuando no sabe?, ¿un idiota que ocupa el trono está libre de toda culpa sólo por ser idiota?

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool.

Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Love is for children and dimwads.

Is this the seedman Jasher? The commander indicated the charred remains. It's his identical twin. We know he traveled with you until recently. Where is his amar? I ate it. This is a foolish time for flippancy. I panicked. It tasted horrible. Do you have any mouthwash?

In Christ, God is supreme, but not in the old discredited paradigm of supremacy: God is the supreme healer, the supreme friend, the supreme lover, the supreme life-giver who self-empties in gracious love for all. The king of kings and lord of lords is the servant of all and the friend of sinners. The so-called weakness and foolishness of God are greater than the so-called power and wisdom of human regimes.

Humans were foolish to build their own competitors—but they couldn't help themselves. —ERASMUS, philosophical datanotes

Mom always used to say that stupid people have more nerve than brains.

Erano passati quei tempi, perché gli uomini erano stati così sciocchi da pretendere di effettuare una riforma cominciando dall'esterno anziché dall'interno e da non capire che una dottrina non è necessariamente falsa per il solo fatto che i suoi aderenti non ne sono all'altezza.

Ah'd rather be silly old fool than a lonely old woman you see.

In his love life Yancy specialized in devising scenarios that could lead only to unwise decisions.

This is what happens when you put a moron in the intelligence unit: he gets even dumber.