Foolish Quotes

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.

How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven.

Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.