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Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
Sometimes stupid is all we've got.
Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.
That isn't greatness. That's just foolishness.
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
Stupid to the power of stupid.
Idle words. From foolish people.
Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.
Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.
Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom.
Thinking fool to someone is making fool to yourself.
A foolish mind, knowing that it will die soon, will do foolish things.
--For the Empire's Throne
The impudence of Ignorance
Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity.
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
The folly of the wise is better than the wisdom of fools.
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.
Well I am glad I have something of the fool in my disposition
foolishness being the only quality that makes wisdom possible.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
A fool is wise in his eyes.
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Only ignorance excuses stupidity
A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.
People always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser ...
I'm just as big a fool as the rest of them.
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
Stupid people and their stupid people ways!
A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
Stupid. He was stupid. He was tired of being stupid.
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.
A fool is wise in his own eyes.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
I never think anyone in love is foolish. We do the best we can.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
But fools wil persist in their madness, will they not?
People can be unimaginably foolish ... and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.
What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise!
Ignorance of ourselves must be folly.
Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.
I may be getting old, but not foolish.
Wisdom is simple but profound.
Folly, even when complex, is stupid.
I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.
The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
How every fool can play upon the word!
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
The mistakes of the wise are better than the wisdom of fools.
Foolish questions will make you genius
To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a far broader and more important lesson.
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
The number of fools is infinite
Stupidity doesn't make you wise, it makes you stupid!
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
Even fools are right sometimes.
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.
When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.
Wise people could sometimes be dumb.
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.
Fools, their wisdom weak,
are their own enemies
as they go through life,
doing evil
that bears
bitter fruit.
The Foolish man is one who takes pride in hate and oppression of the unfortunate. He is weak because of such behavior.
For what is there at all done among men that is not full of folly, and that too from fools and to fools? Against
The wise listen to the foolish.
I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
Ignorance is a fools castle.
There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.
Stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale,
Shall I call that Wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a foolish look to it; yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort of wiseish look to it.
Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.