Foolish Quotes

Foolish Quote of the day

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness.

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things

Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

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

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

Foolish heart, hear me calling. Stop before you start falling. Foolish heart, heed my warning; you've been wrong before. Don't be wrong anymore.

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.

The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"