...genius is no proof against shooting one's own foot.

You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.

— Woody Allen

If you throw obstacles at the relationship with Mexico, you would be shooting yourself in the foot.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

We cannot use jihadists because it's like shooting yourself in the foot.

— Bashar al-Assad

I could be shooting myself in the foot, but in some ways, I feel I've said all I've needed to say when to comes…

— Marjorie Liu

If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

— Frances McDormand

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you…' I…

— Josef Koudelka

I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen…

— Gary Numan

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not…

— Madame de Stael

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not…

— Meg Cabot

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

— Thomas Carlyle

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero