Capacity Quote by Jennifer Fallon

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish…

— Brandon Sanderson

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

— Alexander Pope

Foolish men attract foolish circumstances.

— Aaliyah Hurley

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores…

— Honore de Balzac

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

— Mohlatsane Qelemotse

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

— Cesare Pavese

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

— Thucydides

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect…

— Joseph Addison

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

— Baron de Montesquieu