Foolish Quotes

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.

It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop. You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish...

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said "African" instead of "Nubian" or "Black" or "Kemet" or "original" or "Israelite," don't be so foolish. I say "African" because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

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

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

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

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.

I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.