Lack of Wisdom Quotes

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

You can only be stupid when you're young.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.