Foolish Quotes

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

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

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

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.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

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.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.

To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

The wise are wise only because they love.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.