Foolish Quotes · Page 22

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

— Anonymous

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

— Robert Jordan

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

— Confucius

“...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I had never met a foolish person till I met a person who didnt know his name

— Matthias

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you

— Amit Kalantri

Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.

— T. D. Jakes

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

— Ivan Panin

“He was foolish enough to fall completely in love with someone who didn't think he had a heart.”

— H.M. Ward

“Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous…

— Sara Ella

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

— James Russell Lowell

There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Foolish Lily," he said. "Don't you know why I haven't touched you? Didn't you guess that once you were in my arms…

— Connie Brockway

Foolish people waste their time searching for greener pastures... Wise people cultivate their land and grow their own.

— Charles Friend

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

— Ezra Taft Benson

One need to observe and realise the thin line existing between being good at heart and being foolish !!

— Senoraroy

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no…

— Thomas Jane

Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of…

— Pope Innocent I

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is…

— Ethan Hawke

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are…

— John D. MacDonald

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is…

— Francis of Assisi

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must…

— Anton Chekhov

If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish,…

— Polly Berrien Berends

Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. First, you must pay the…

— John C. Maxwell

There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my…

— Charles W. Nibley

I have to get back there." I said to Adrian. "Into that door." He arched an eyebrow. "What, like sneaking in? How…

— Richelle Mead

Remember, character is not of much value. What is valuable is consciousness - not conscience but consciousness. Conscience is created by the…

— Rajneesh

We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge…

— Michelle Alexander

I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican…

— Orson Scott Card

Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed…

— Benjamin Franklin

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

— William Blake

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

— W. Somerset Maugham

He who speaks much, but does little is a foolish man.

— Anonymous

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

— George Herbert

“If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”

— Epictetus

I don't make the decisions and it would be foolish of me to think that I did.

— Tim Howard

A lot of intelligent women make foolish choices.

— Zeenat Aman

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky