The best Quotes and Sayings about Foolishness

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I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Technology, GenerationsAlbert Einstein
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Intelligence, Self-Confidence, DoubtCharles Bukowski
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

GeniusAlbert Einstein
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Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Universe, HumanityAlbert Einstein
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That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Intelligence, DoubtHelmut Schmidt
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Brom: "Because you can't argue with all of the fools in the world."

ArgumentChristopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon
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Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

Beauty, WomenCoco Chanel
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Monsieur, when a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.

Sky, FingersAmélie
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Poesie, BooksCassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices
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Momma says, "stupid is as stupid does."

Forrest Gump, by Forrest Gump
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.

LightUnknown
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

OpinionsJosh Billings
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They say that there is no medecine that can cure a fool... I guess that's true.

The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time
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He, who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He, who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Learning, QuestionsChinese Saying
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller in The Maid of Orleans
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Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Ricky Gervais
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I usually agree with what God did, but putting limits on intelligence without putting limits on stupidity wasn't a great move.

Konrad Adenauer
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The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

GeniusAlexandre Dumas
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I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.

Mark Cuban
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

Clarence Darrow
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Quotes to think aboutJean-Jacques Rousseau
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Opinions, Racism, Conspiracy TheoriesWilliam Butler Yeats
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Robert A. Heinlein
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Books, MirrorsChanakya
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Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Stephen King in 11/22/63
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The more you know, the more you realise how much you don't know - the less you know, the more you think you know.

Knowledge, IntelligenceDavid T. Freeman
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Oh, God. Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers!

Serious Sam
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Bacteria is the only culture some people have.

Culture, Funny QuotesUnknown
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Failures & Mistakes, IntelligenceFyodor Dostoevsky
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There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

Ron White
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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

SocietyRuben Blades
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Only dumb people are happy.

Courtney Love
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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

HumanityDean Koontz
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Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Claude Chabrol
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Saul Bellow
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Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

BraggingBruce Lee
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Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Robert Anthony
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens
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I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar.

Freedom, RomeGladiator, by Gracchus
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A fool is any man who doesn't think he's a fool.

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 1: Blood Song
 
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It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Colin Farrell
 
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I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me... and marvel stupidly.

Terry Gilliam
 
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Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

Brandon Sanderson in Warbreaker
 
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What one fool can understand, another can.

Richard Feynman
 
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Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul.

AgeCarlos Ruiz Zafón in Marina
 
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Opinions, WeaknessesWilliam Somerset Maugham
 
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Violence, VanityJean Rostand
 
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Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

OpinionsBrigitte Bardot
 
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