Aphorisms about stupidity. No matter how stupid the words of a fool are, sometimes they are enough to confuse an intelligent person. Quotes about fools

It is better to remain silent and seem like a fool than to speak up and not leave any comments on this matter.

A fool, having done something stupid, then makes excuses that it was his duty.

A man in love often looks like a fool; a woman in love - never.

As soon as a fool praises us, he no longer seems so stupid to us.

Each of us is a fool for at least five minutes a day; wisdom is not to exceed the limit.

The most terrible thing is a fool who is right to some microscopic extent.

It is enough for a fool to say that he is smart; but the impenetrable fool still needs to prove this.

Witty expressions and thoughts about fools

No matter how stupid the words of a fool are, sometimes they are enough to confuse an intelligent person.

Fools should be governed according to their stupidity, not according to the wisdom they do not possess.

Silencing a fool is rude, but allowing him to continue is simply cruel.

Cheerful witty expressions and thoughts about fools

The locusts themselves are not yet a punishment from the Lord; they become a punishment from the Lord when there are many of them. It's the same with fools.

Money didn't make a fool of anyone; they only make fools appear.

Rudeness is the wit of fools.

Everyone says about a fool and a braggart that he is a fool and a braggart; but no one tells him this, and he dies, not knowing about himself what everyone knows.

Fools invent fashion, but smart people are forced to follow it.

Better to bet on fools. There are more of them.

Children and fools always tell the truth, says the old saying. The conclusion is clear: mature and wise people never tell the truth.

Mistrust is the wisdom of a fool.

Of all the rights, the most irrefutable is the right of a smart person (whether by force or persuasion) to lead a fool.

Evil people hate sin, fearing punishment.

Complete fools are drawn to intellect, like cats to fire.

Don't make a fool of yourself just to make others laugh.

Fools complain that they are taken for fools.

An educated fool is even more intolerable than an uneducated one.

Love is the only way for a fool to grow in his own eyes.

Are fools lucky? They're not that stupid.

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When we manage to deceive others, they rarely seem to us as fools as we appear to ourselves when others manage to deceive us.

I'm always afraid of a fool. You can never guarantee that he is not also a rogue.

Previously, there were two troubles in Russia: roads and fools. Now a third has been added: fools telling us which way to go!

Nature wisely made sure that human stupidities are transitory, but books perpetuate them. The fool should be content with the fact that he has bothered all his contemporaries, but he also wants to annoy future generations, he wants posterity to be aware that he lived in the world, and so that they will not forget forever that he was a fool.

A fool who admits that he is a fool is no longer a fool.

For most people, lethargy and laziness are stronger than even their ambition. Hence the success of fools.

If vanity made someone happy, then that someone was probably a fool.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

It is much easier to become smart than to stop being a fool.

Fools and madmen usually tell the truth.

Sometimes even with a smart person it is difficult to lose what you found with a fool.

Fools are never shy, although shyness takes on all forms of stupidity.

It is impossible to be honest and sincere with a fool.

Tasty witty expressions and thoughts about fools

Stubbornness is the sign of fools.

A bad person follows his inclinations and because of them forgets his duties.

Next to a fool there is always a swindler.

There is nothing more annoying than seeing a well-spoken word die in the ear of the fool to whom you said it.

Idiots are not as idiots as they seem; idiots are a completely different matter.

Any fool can criticize, and many of them do just that.

If others weren't fools, we would be.

Constancy is the most ingenious way to make a fool.

The most hypocritical people are more likely to be fools than others.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.

I don’t know, it sounds different in the mouth of a smart man and a fool.

An intelligent person is happy only when he receives his own praise; a fool is content with the applause of those around him.

Book wisdom makes a fool twice as stupid.

A fool thinks he is smart; A smart person knows that he is stupid.

Fools use smart people for the same purpose that undersized men wear high heels.

Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand everything.

Peerless witty expressions and thoughts about fools

Avoid people who, seeing your vices and shortcomings, justify them or even approve of them. Such people are either flatterers, or cowards, or simply fools. Do not expect help from them in any trouble or misfortune.

It is stupider to be smart among fools than to be a fool among smart people.

There are two kinds of fools: some do not understand what everyone must understand; others understand what no one should understand.

Power does not corrupt people; but fools who climb to the heights of power corrupt power.

A well-read fool is the most annoying kind of fool.

The mind is the same everywhere: smart people have the same common characteristics, like all fools, despite the differences in nations, clothes, languages, religions, even outlook on life.

Fools love to punish smart people. Firstly, they raise themselves. Secondly, they turn out smarter. Thirdly, everyone sees who is in charge. The only thing is that they don’t know what to do afterwards.

Anyone who persistently repeats that he is not a fool is usually not completely sure of this.

It is more difficult to calm down a fool busy with business than a violent madman.

The world is full of fools, but no one notices or even suspects their stupidity.

A fool does not enter into dialogue with himself. The first thought captures him without waiting for the answer of the second.

A helpful fool is more dangerous than an enemy.

Sixty years ago, optimist and fool were not synonymous.

How can she not be smart, messing around with such fools all her life?

Fools are those who are fools.

There are only two infinite things: the Universe and human stupidity. However, I'm not sure about the Universe.

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Albert Einstein

Equality is the friend of stupidity. For those who cannot differentiate, everyone is equal.

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Wilhelm Schwebel

Fools are ready to sacrifice everything in the world for the sake of two acquisitions: happiness and freedom, but they are punished by the fact that they achieve their goal; and it turns out that they have no ability to experience happiness, and they have no idea what to do with freedom.

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George Bernard Shaw

If someone told you: “Fool!”, do not rush to think that he is smart, perhaps he was just introducing himself.

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Unknown author ()

Artificial intelligence is nowhere near natural stupidity.

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Lemm Sullivan

Dementia is like a pure movement of the mind, devoid of content and constancy, some kind of eternal flight, which is immediately erased from memory.

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Paul Michel Foucault

It seems that the infinity of stupidity is just the beginning...

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Leonid S. Sukhorukov

The unconscious is that chapter of my story that contains a blind spot or a lie.

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Lacan Jacques

Every fool will find an even greater fool to admire him.

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Nicola Boileau

The sage is like a mossman's tray: silently he shows his perfections, and the fool, like a marching drum, has a loud voice, but inside is empty and insignificant.

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Muslihaddin Saadi

Universal stupidity? Are we narrowing the boundaries too much?!!

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Evgeniy Kashcheev

Stupidly outgrew his children.

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Valery Afonchenko

He turned out to be a smart guy, but he didn't come out a fool.

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Folk wisdom

Sometimes only a step separates stupidity from genius, but it is not known in which direction...

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Mikhail Mamchich

We need to be able to do those stupid things that our nature requires of us.

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Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

There is no more blind person than the one who does not want to see.

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Jonathan Swift, Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

There are situations in life from which only stupidity can help you get out.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Stupidity is usually logical.

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Hugo Steinhaus

We will leave this world as stupid and as evil as we found it.

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Voltaire (Marie Francois Arouet)

The measure of a person's intelligence is his ability to doubt, the measure of his stupidity is gullibility.

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E. and J. Goncourt

Some stupidity does not cross boundaries just because she was denied a visa.

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Leonid S. Sukhorukov

Madness and witchcraft are very similar. A magician is an artist of madness.

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F.Novalis

Man has two companions: his own shadow and his own stupidity.

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Veselin Georgiev

A smart person does not like to talk about stupidity to the same extent that a fool likes to talk about intelligence.

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Baurzhan Toyshibekov

It is better to remain silent and seem like a fool than to open your mouth and completely dispel doubts.

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Mark Twain

A condescending attitude towards stupidity is inherent in every intelligent person.

A fool is not the one who says stupid things, but the one who does not notice that he is saying them.
O. Brik

A fool is in opposition to a smart person.
V. Zubkov

A fool is a person out of place.
A. Raikin

Fools and people of low rank are, as a rule, very jealous of their dignity and never forget or forgive what in their eyes is neglect.
F. Chesterfield

Most people are stupid, and everyone fools around in their own way.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

There is no doubt that learning, just like travel and any other auxiliary means of education that improves a person with healthy mental faculties, makes a fool ten thousand times more intolerable, since it supplies his stupidity with a variety of material and gives him the opportunity to show his bad taste.
Thomas Alva Edison

One of the greatest disasters of civilization is the learned fool.
Karel Capek

Fools are drawn to intellectuality like cats to fire.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Next to a fool there is always a swindler.

A helpful fool is more dangerous than an enemy.
Ivan Andreevich Krylov

A fool who admits that he is a fool is no longer a fool.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

I'm always afraid of a fool. You can never guarantee that he is not also a rogue.
William Hazlitt

He who is stupid cannot hide from the foolishness, And he who is seriously a fool is dumber than the one who is fooling around.
Robert Berne

Fools are not watered: they grow on their own.
Thomas Fuller

It is more difficult to calm down a fool busy with business than a violent madman.
George Saville Halifax

A fool does not enter into dialogue with himself. The first thought captures him without waiting for the answer of the second.
George Saville Halifax

A fool thinks he is smart; A smart person knows that he is stupid.
William Shakespeare

Every fool likes his stick.
Unknown author

Those who praise them greatly harm fools.
Democritus

In an argument with a fool, true stupidity is born.
Gennady Malkin

In the land of fools, genius becomes god; everyone bows to him, and no one obeys him.
Bernard Show

Be a fool as much as you want, but don't set a bad example.

If fools were able to understand what suffering we endure because of them, they would even be imbued with pity for us.
Antoine de Rivarol

Believe it or not. but even the most complete fool is the end result of millions of years of evolution.

There are two kinds of fools: some do not understand what everyone must understand; others understand what no one should understand.
Vasily Klyuchevsky

You're a fool, but that doesn't help matters.
Arkady Davidovich

Even dumb and stupid brutes, no matter how clumsy they are in everything else, have enough dexterity and attention to live. Even those that are useless to others will not miss anything for their purpose.
Seneca

Fools are never shy, although shyness takes on all forms of stupidity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Never call a person a fool: he may turn out to be so stupid that he will be offended.

I'm not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing.
Inscription on the T-shirt (USA)

A successful fool is a great disaster.
Aeschylus

A wise man knows everything he says, but a fool says everything he knows.
Unknown author

Only a fool hears everything he hears.
Austin O'Malley

Complete protection from fools is impossible, since fools are unusually inventive.

If you come up with a fool proof, someone will come up with a better fool.
American saying

God created idiots, and the Internet made them equal.
Unknown author

There may not be more fools, but they are becoming more active.
Stanislav Lem

There are no fewer fools now, they have just become smarter.
Boris Krutier

When fools get wiser, new fools will come to power.
Arkady Davidovich

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters a fool.
E. Bulwer-Lytton

A fool always finds a greater fool who surprises him.
N. Boileau

A fool dressed as a fop is a bad book with a golden edge.
J. Petit-San

As soon as a fool praises us, he no longer seems so stupid to us.
F. La Rochefoucauld

It is not the silent fool who is boring, but the talkative one.
M. Sommeri

The first thing you learn in life is that you are a fool. The last thing you find out is that you are still the same fool.
R. Bradbury

When a smart person begins a sentence, we have no idea how he will finish it. When a fool starts a sentence, we know the end for sure.
A. Świętochowski

A smart person can play a fool, but a smart person can never play a fool.
V. Zubkov

The more smart people are planted, the better the fools will grow.
Arkady Davidovich

You cannot truly describe a fool without spending enough time patiently studying yourself.
F. Colby

This is how it works in our lifetime:
For every high tide there is a low tide,
For every smart person there is a fool -
Everything is equal, everything is fair.
B. Okudzhava

Silencing a fool is rude, but allowing him to continue is simply cruel.
B. Franklin

Every person has the right to be a fool, nothing can be said against this, but the right must be used with some moderation.
K. Berne

Every person is a complete fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom is not to exceed this limit.
E. Hubbard

No matter how stupid the words of a fool are, sometimes they are enough to confuse an intelligent person.
N. Gogol

Fools in general, and domestic fools in particular, really love to manage something.
V. Klyuchevsky

Fools say stupid things, smart people publish them.
V. Zubkov

Fools learn from mistakes, but intelligent people, despite all their mistakes, do not grow smarter.
G. Hegel

Fools ask questions more often than inquisitive people.
M. Gorky

Fools throw feasts, and smart people eat at them.
B. Franklin

The most dangerous people are the fools on the other side of the barricade.
3. Kalandkevich

In the world you meet people of four categories: lovers, ambitious, observers and fools... The happiest are fools.
T. Peng

There are fewer fools than people think: people simply do not understand each other.
L. Vauvenargues

Doing good to fools is like adding water to the sea.
M. Cervantes

When we manage to deceive others, they rarely seem to us as fools as we appear to ourselves when others manage to deceive us.
F. La Rochefoucauld

They don't tell you in law school that the most important thing in law is the ability to get along with fools.
D. Lessing

The world is full of fools, but no one notices or even suspects their stupidity.
B. Gracian

Interesting quotes have always influenced our worldview, and today we have one of them - No matter how stupid the words of a fool are, sometimes they are enough to confuse an intelligent person. Who is the author of this quote?

The correct answer is Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (Dead Souls)

The current generation now sees everything clearly, marvels at the errors, laughs at the foolishness of its ancestors, it is not in vain that this chronicle is inscribed with heavenly fire, that every letter in it screams, that a piercing finger is directed from everywhere at it, at it, at the current generation; but the current generation laughs and arrogantly, proudly begins a series of new errors, which posterity will also laugh at later.

Countless, like the sands of the sea, are human passions, and all are different from one another, and all of them, low and beautiful, are at first submissive to man and then become his terrible rulers.

And what Russian doesn’t like driving fast?
Should his soul, striving to spin and take a walk, sometimes say:
“Damn it all! “Is it his soul not to love her?
Isn’t it possible to love her when you hear something enthusiastically wonderful in her?
It seems that an unknown force has taken you on its wing, and you yourself are flying, and everything is flying.