305 Quotes About Foolishness

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

पर आदमी की मुसीबत तो यह है कि मूर्खता करने के बाद उसे निबाहना पड़ता है।

The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.

Only a fool asks for happiness in this foolish, worn world. We are . . . content . . . together. That is enough for a while.

It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort.

I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.