Foolish Quotations

We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.

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

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

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.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

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

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.

I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that I hadn't done a play for such a long time that I wanted to go back and really kind of reach out for a classical career.

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

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

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

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

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.

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?

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

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

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

No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.

We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.

When we commit too many foolish fouls, it slows the game. That helps the other team get in a groove.

We refuse to go into foolish debt to pay for it.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Wake has been absolutely awesome lately. Hopefully he can keep up that magic. He's making guys look foolish out there.

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Whenever we dream out loud, were criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are. As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance.

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

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

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

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions.

We've seen so many foolish happenings at companies where the auditors don't do their job.

The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

You allow people to represent themselves, and they'll either look smart or foolish on their own; you don't have to do much for them.

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

We made a lot of foolish turnovers in the first half. They're a great team, they're going to cause turnovers, but we've got to take care of the ball in midfield transition.

We're looking at expenses, but we're also not going to be foolish in cutting back in an area where we need to continue to win ... and make sure we protect the company.

Leah or Erin could develop into what we need, but at this point, it's foolish to think that two inexperienced players are the way to go. Expect to see other free agents at the point position come through camp.

So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.

Signature is extremely rare, and the belief that it commonly exists confuses police investigators and makes for a lot of foolish assumptions.

Most penalties are a lack of concentration and that's what ate us up. We made some foolish penalties and had some concentration and focus issues.

Of course I'm worried. I'd be foolish to tell you I'm not worried, ... But I think we've got enough strength in the party, strength in individual candidates, so that we hang on to that majority.

My deeds now are simple, for I'm a simple man. But (they're) honest .Ê.Ê. come from a sincere heart .Ê.Ê. I'm definitely not the same foolish misguided person I once was.

My deeds now are simple, for I'm a simple man. But (they're) honest . . . come from a sincere heart . . . I'm definitely not the same foolish misguided person I once was.

Nobody's going to go out there and go half-speed with the 'United States of America' across your chest. The boys are taking a lot of pride in putting this uniform on. Obviously you can't be foolish and maybe cost your season or your team with an injury. You've got to be more respectful than that. But if I feel like you can go full bore for three innings, I'm going to do it.

Richard could probably play at a push, but we have some big games coming up and it would be foolish to risk him. We had signed JB for such an eventuality and he joined us for training last night.

Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself, as if he were his own enemy.

Politically, war trumps the economy. But the president has very few things that he can brag about right now. He has to point out that the economy is doing very well. It would be foolish not to.

Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals

One of the challenges we have is not allowing our team to look ahead. (Looking ahead) really takes your energy off what you really need to -focus on. We're too experienced to fall for that foolish way of looking at things.

I would be foolish to say there aren't people who are booking away because of the rhetoric. As it gets louder, it hurts the company more.

I didn't want to make a foolish decision and mess myself up for the rest of the season,

Idleness, women, disorder, a foolish partiality for one's own native place, discontent and timidity are six obstructions to greatness.

I don't know what the reason is, but we've been getting dominated here lately. This is the NHL, and we're foolish if we thought we were going to start picking up easy wins. It's going to be a grind all the way until the end of the season.

I dare you, boys and girls, to make life obey you, not you it. It is only a shallow dare to do the foolish things. I dare you to do the uplifting, courageous things.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; / Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

Because the world has gone this way, we would be foolish not to give our kids access to these machines,

I have spent money on the most foolish things.But when I think back about it I really wonder how foolish my motives really were.

I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play.

I did not intentionally break the law but made a foolish mistake for which I have accepted responsibility. I am pleased the whole incident is now behind me and I can focus my attention on doing my best for Blackburn Rovers.

For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: / But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; / And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: / That no flesh should glory in his presence.

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

If at the end of the week's work, and on receiving his wages, he were to ask his employer for a larger sum, pleading that, though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it, yet he expected it, he would not only receive the larger sum but would, doubtless, be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.