Quotes about Foolishness

It was a case of the blind leading the blind, only worse, for Arnault seems to have been practically headless.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

Jealousy and stupidity really do most of the harm that is done in the world.

An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way.

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.

We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

We shall never again try to convince a fool by reason, for it is both useless and dangerous.

Anti-Semitism was clearly not just anti-Christian and immoral but also quite foolish.