foolish beliefs Quotes

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

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

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.

Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.