Foolishness Quotes - Page 2

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

Unfortunately, I’m one of those people who could be hurt by someone multiple times but still believes there is a good side to them. :)

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

If you know, you are smart then never try to negotiate your intelligence for the inept.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Madness is blackness.

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness.

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

My father told me once "Son, there are only two kinds people that can do whatever they want in life. Kings and fools.". So I decided to be a King.

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

We find our own way to right action, and tread it as we go. He who tells his neighbour what he, the neighbour, should do in given circumstances is a fool. He does not and he cannot know. 'If I were you' is a silly beginning to any remark. You are not, and you never will be anyone else. Mind your own business; it is, or should be, a full-time task for twenty-four hours a day.

Every inch that is not fool is rogue.

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the 'conditioning' of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foolish enough to choose or be led to stand on the other. Thus we are male or female, old or young, of the East of West. By temperament we are introvert or extrovert, leaders of followers, all for action or striving rather to be. It surely follows that we should be more tolerant of the other fellow, equally right/wrong, and be less swift to judge him with our ignorant, lop-sided view and definite disapproval. In any event, do we have to express an opinion, presume to judge?

Man was bestowed with intelligence, only to gauge his foolishness!

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.

When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity.

World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!

For ye suffer fools gladly seeing ye yourselves are wise.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

There is something lamentable, degrading, and almost insane in pursuing the visionary schemes of past ages with dogged determination, in paths of learning which have been investigated by superior minds, and with which such adventurous persons are totally unacquainted. The history of Perpetual Motion is a history of the fool-hardiness of either half-learned, or totally ignorant persons.

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which kind of pisses me off.

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

Don't fool yourself by look so humblewhereas the thing you want is respect.

I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it.

Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If you understand what I mean."Caz: "Yes."R.B.: "It was very foolish of you to attack that vile Roknari galley-man."Caz: "Yes."R.B.: "And yet, I think, given the same circumstances you would do it again."Caz: "Knowing what I know now...it would be harder. But I would hope... I would pray, Royse, that the gods would still lend me such foolishness in my need."R.B: "What is this astonishing foolishness, that shines brighter than all my father's gold? Can you teach me to be such a fool, too, Caz?"Caz: "Oh," "I'm sure of it.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

The madness in the heart is the state of mind.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.