Foolish Quotes

Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

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

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

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.

No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

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

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

I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

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

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

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

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

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

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

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

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

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

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

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

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

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

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

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.