Charles Lamb Quotes

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Fools are without number.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

So young and so wrong.

I think it's amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters - kind of like watching Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.