Foolish Quotes

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Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. — Kin Hubbard
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. — Karl Jaspers
Stay hungry, stay foolish. — Steve Jobs
I may be getting old, but not foolish. — Elia Kazan
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the… — Joe Klein
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. — Karl Kraus
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and… — Ashton Kutcher
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… — Steve Lacy
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much… — Lucy Larcom
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. — Bruce Lee
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. — Daniel Day-Lewis
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the… — Walter Lippmann
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. — James Russell Lowell
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. — Martin Luther
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. — Nelson Mandela
I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream. — Dave Matthews
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. — H. L. Mencken
I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no… — Joyce Meyer
Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a… — Liza Minnelli

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