Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Fools are without number.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

I'm just stupid and too headstrong.

If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

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

A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

It is perilous to ignore idiotic ideas if those idiotic ideas are broadly and fervently believed.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

History should teach humility and prudence, but America doesn’t seem to learn. I’ve never seen a virgin who loses her innocence more often.

Ignorance and confidence is a lethal cocktail.

There's no law against stupid - I learned that a long time ago.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.