305 Quotes About Foolishness

It's astonishing what a number of churches and idiots there are in the world.

إنّ في البشرِ -وَحتىٰ في أعتىٰ المجرمين- من السذاجةِ وَالطيبةِ فوق ما قد نتخيّل. وَهذا يَصدُقُ علينا نحن أيضًا

The fool attempts to predict the next big wave while ignoring the tide.

You've lost command when you ask your own staff officer to step up and he responds, "now is not a good time for me Sir" in the most casual voice.

Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.

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.

My father told me once "Son, in life only a fool and a King can do whatever they want". So I decided to be a King.

I guess I'm nothing but a rude and brash fool.

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.