Best 316 quotes in «foolish quotes» category

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

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

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

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

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

My personal analysis is that, if you are concerned about U.S. foreign policy and getting into foolish wars, then Hillary Clinton is not your woman. On the other hand, I mean neither is Donald Trump.

My rule is when in doubt hire a professional. You could do it just this year and then you have direction to resume doing it yourself after the consultation. What you don't want is to do it wrong and be hit by a huge tax bill. Remember the old saying, "Don't be pennywise and pound foolish.

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

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

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

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

No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

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

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

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

Only foolish people are completely secure.

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

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

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

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

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.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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

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.

That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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

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

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

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

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.