305 Quotes About Foolishness

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

A foolish son can only dazzle his father with dirt.

Never test the intelligence of a foolish man.

Did you ever think about how many things we do that we spend far more energy trying to forget than we expended by doing them in the first place? And as terribly obvious as it might seem, maybe the primary place we should expend our energy is taking the time to figure out how we want to expend it before we do.

One can repent of a sin and have done with it; but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it.

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

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

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.

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.