Best 316 quotes in «foolish quotes» category

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.

Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but ignorance will kill the fool.

If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Even if doors are open to the fool, he/she will still be foolish in accessing them.

Folly is the stupidity of heart.

Have you ever dreamt about doing something totally foolish, something so absurd that perhaps you were afraid to tell anyone except possibly those closest to you? I harbored such a secret for most of my adult life — I secretly wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail [A.T.] from Georgia to Maine.

I am looking for the one I can’t fool.

Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears.

I’d be foolish if I didn’t return her interest.” He puffed out his chest. “And no one has ever called me a fool.” Rosika’s jaw tightened. She rubbed her temples. “I’m giving it some serious consideration.

I don’t care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish.

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

If people call you foolish, don't always assume you are. They may just be unable to comprehend the reasons for your actions, but if you yourself can't comprehend the reason for your own actions, then you really are just an idiot. - The Malwatch

I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become foolish.

I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance

Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight; wisdom swings it wide open.

I have acted foolishly, father forgive me.

If you want to dig a grave faster than anyone, use ignorance.

I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.

I know you not quite well Yet I foolishly surrender my mind to you. Slowly and carefully you have cast a spell Now my virgin heart only longs for you. There is no need to push, I am already falling. Once proudly tall, I’m no longer standing. Knowing well that I am doomed to misery, I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering.

It is a foolish person that desecrates a sacred Hawaiian mountain.

I stilled. I was sure I'd imagined that all too familiar voice, but there he was. His bright blue eyes saying far more than his words ever could. His iris' held pain and anger and my shame increased tenfold. How foolish I was to think what I'd done would matter to him, or how his reaction would mean so much to me.

I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again.

It is better to be foolish wise than wise foolish.

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

It is better to be poor and wise than to be rich and foolish.

It is foolish to play with God, he is not a man, God’s laws do not change and His word is steadfast

It is foolish to reply on people who can betray and fail you in time of trouble. Only God is our reliable help and protection

It is foolish to pretend that the legacies of colonialism can be consistently erased without a trace.

It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

Mtu akikuita mjinga au mpumbavu juu ya maisha yako usikasirike kwa sababu wewe si mjinga wala mpumbavu. Sema hapana kwa ndiyo nyingi kwa sababu hawapaswi kuingilia mambo ya mtu mwingine bila idhini ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Kuingilia mambo ya mtu mwingine bila idhini ya Mwenyezi Mungu ni dhambi, tena dhambi kubwa, ni kuvunja amri kuu ya kwanza ya Mungu.

It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.

It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.

I've been wondering," Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going to lose them.

I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything I touch is you. How foolish I was when you live in my toes so that everywhere I go there's you. How senseless of me to say you live in my heart when you breathe in my lungs, walk on my mind, and drink in my mouth. I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.

I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!

Listen! The court jester's cap and bells. The King is coming!

[Martin Hellman:] Unless you're foolish enough to be continually excited, you won't have the motivation, you won't have the energy to carry it through.

Min Herres behagelige Sendebrev af 27de Dag udi Glugmaanet, (a) haver jeg den anden Dag af Blidemaaned (b) bekommet. Min Herre forlanger at vide hvordan Tilstanden nu omstunder er ved Academiet, om man tilkommende Sommer kand vente, at see nogen, at blive ophøyed paa Doctor-Trappen, (c) enten udi den Guddommelige Kundskab (d), udi de verdslige Love, (e) eller udi Lægekunsten (f). Min Herre ønsker ogsaa at vide, hvor mange Mestere af Verdens Viisdom (g) i Fior bleve skabte (h), hvor mange Laurbærkronede Personer (i), Item, hvo dette Aar er Rector og Decanus, det er den høye Skoles Forstander og den verdslige Viisdoms Høvidsmand, iligemaade, hvad Nyt som ellers er forefaldet udi den lærde Fristad (k). (a) Januario.(b) Februario.(c) Doctor-Graden.(d) Theologien.(e) Injure.(f) Medicinen.(g) Magistri Philosophiae.(h) Creerede.(i) Baccalaurei.(k) Republica literaria.

Most of the time, it seems humans don’t look any deeper than the outside of things. Which, of course, is how they are fooled by me and my kind.

It is easier to train stubborn children than obstinate adults.

May foolishness extinct itself after her, followed by honesty, integrity, kindness, hope, love and all its poisonous derivatives that plagued those that treasured them.

Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.

Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming

No sleeper whom you have wakened, None downcast whom you have roused, None whose shut mouth you have opened, None ignorant whom you gave knowledge. None foolish whom you have taught.