Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn’t be racing to begin with. Or is it...

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent...

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

There’s fool’s gold—pyrite—and then there’s fool’s gold—gold owned by idiots willing to trade it for worthless dollars.

Stupidity is not a behavior; it’s a religion. One can die for it!

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has ‘never had a chance, poor devil’, you are profoundly mistaken. One...

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward...

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen...

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it’s when the idiot laughs at you.

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its...

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious

Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they’re used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we...

A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.

If thou remember’st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.