Foolish Quotes

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

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

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.