Fool Foolish Quotes

Sentiment makes fools of us all. ~ Traci Chee

More times than I'm willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I'm willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool
but only to himself, of course. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Too often we are unwilling to 'look the fool' in the pursuit of our passion. Therefore, we forsake our passion. And which, we might ask, is more foolish? ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish. ~ Dorothy Day

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you. ~ Amit Kalantri

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

Some people's immaturity is intensified by their stupidity. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I look way back to the beginning of 'whatever this is' that I'm stuck in the middle of, I suddenly realize that 'whatever this is' got started by 'whatever it is' that I was doing. And I can be utterly confident in the fact that 'whatever it is' that I was doing, it wasn't thinking. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is an extremely strong desire in a fool to be regarded as cool. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will 'give way' and it is I who will 'fall. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity ~ Munia Khan

There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple. ~ Anzia Yezierska

Only foolish fishes wish to fly! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Men like honesty when it favours them. ~ Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth. ~ Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Being deemed a fool, even if it is done by a fool, does not hurt, unless you are a fool. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better. ~ John Brunner

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool. ~ Criss Jami

My wisdom absent of God's wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Being lost without knowing that we're lost means that we have no idea that we need to be found. And if you have a hard time believing that that's just about as lost as you can get, watch the news. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Due north' on my compass is largely 'due' to the fact that in 'due' time I have been 'unduly' lax in recalibrating my compass. And I'm apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I'm lost. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The real reason why most old people hate their wrinkles and white hair is because they are still far from being wise. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Silence is often the wisest reply. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

You need to work yourself up into some kind of a state every morning and believe that you are doing something terribly important upon which the future of literature, if not the world, depends. Buddhism tells you that this is just a foolish fantasy. So, I try not to think too much about Buddhism early in the morning. From noon on, I think about it. ~ Pankaj Mishra

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Confound it, it's foolish, Tom ~ Mark Twain

Take myths, for instance! As we know, fools are the overwhelming majority, which means that the witness to any interesting event has generally been a fool. Ergo: a myth is a description of a real event as perceived by a fool and refined by a poet. eh? ~ Arkady Strugatsky

How easy love makes fools of us. ~ Moliere

When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence. ~ Giacomo Casanova

A foolish mistake, it is, to expect the beast, because sometimes, sometimes, it is the flower's turn to own the name. ~ Tiffany McDaniel

Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it. ~ Milan Kundera

Give up on me " he begged her. "I don't like people dropping in to see me without warning, I have forgotten the rules of seven tiles and kabaddi, I can't recite my prayers, I don't know what should happen at a nikah ceremony, and in this city where I grew up I get lost if I'm on my own. This isn't home. It makes me giddy because it feels like home and is not. It makes my heart tremble and my head spin."
"You're a stupid, " she shouted at him. "A stupid. Change back! Damn fool! Of course you can." She was a vortex, a siren, tempting him back to his old self. But it was a dead self, a shadow, a ghost and he would not become a phantom. There was a return ticket to London in his wallet, and he was going to use it. ~ Salman Rushdie

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. ~ James Russell Lowell

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ~ Bob Marley

LAW 4
Always Say Less Than Necessary
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish. ~ Robert Greene

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish ~ Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

I tried instead to drown my soul in drink. I cannot say I like alcohol, but I am someone who can drink if I choose to, and I set about obliterating my heart by drinking all I could. This was a puerile way out, of course, and it very quickly led to an even greater despair with the world. In the midst of a drunken stupor, I would come to my senses and realize what an idiot I was to try to fool myself like this. Then my vision and understanding grew clear, and I sat shivering and sober. There were desolate times when even the poor disguise of drunkenness failed to work, no matter how I drank. And each time I sought pleasure in drink, I emerged more depressed than ever. ~ Soseki Natsume

Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it's easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing is terrible for vanity and self-delusion. ~ Mark Vonnegut

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong. ~ Herbert M. Shelton

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread. ~ Robin Hobb

What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods. ~ David Marusek

The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women. ~ Pierce Brown

Even when we're with someone we love, we're foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand before the person we love is not the same as loving her true self, for we are only apt to regard her physical beauty as the indispensable mode of her existence. When time and space intervene, it is possible to be deceived by both, but on the other hand, it is equally possible to draw twice as close to her real self. ~ Yukio Mishima

It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred to his mind. Yet, when he stated the fifth postulate, he stood at the parting of the ways. His subconscious prescience is astounding. There is nothing comperable to it in the whole history of science. ~ George Sarton

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study. ~ Leonard Nimoy

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. ~ Dan Quayle

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life. ~ Edith Wharton

Give no poor fool the pretext to think ye are claiming knowledge of what no mortal knows. ~ C.S. Lewis

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good ... ~ Milan Kundera

This is my fear, of a life wasted, of a cause misbegotten, of a belief that is, in the end, an empty and unattainable ideal, the foolish designs of an innocent child who believed there could be more. ~ R.A. Salvatore

Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn. ~ Orson Scott Card

Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions. ~ Coventry Patmore

Sophie could feel Syrena's sigh; the mermaid's body beneath her sagged with it. "Can't even be mad at you," the mermaid said, her voice little more than a mumble. "You too stupid to even be mad at. You live in world without poetry, without poets. You think poet's job to tell your mother happy birthday. You are such a fool you don't even know you are a fool. How can I be mad at such fool? Poet's job to create the world. ~ Michelle Tea

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him. ~ Confucius

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive ... But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes. ~ David Viscott