Foolish Quotes - Page 3

• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Christian, Wise, Men

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• It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Goal, Custodians

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• A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Self, Common Sense

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a
  failure, and then fail all the more completely because he
  drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the
  English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because
  our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language
  makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

  George Orwell

  Men, Ugly, May

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wise, People, Atheism

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.61, Random House

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• All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Men, Goes On

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• Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

  Theodor Reik

  Relationship, Wise, Women

  Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

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• In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

  Vinod Khosla

  Persistence, Views, Ebay

  "Vinod Khosla: Maintain the Silicon Valley Vision". bits.blogs.nytimes.com. July 13, 2012.

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

  Peter Ustinov

  Hope, Wisdom, Believe

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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

  Epictetus

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

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

  Diane Ackerman

  Stupid, Ideas, Fool

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• A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

  Robert Bloch

  Beautiful, Wise, Men

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• Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Fire, Light, Air

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• To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Change, Enjoy It While It Lasts, Delight

  "The Razor's Edge". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1944.

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• I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Age, Fool

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8840, Delphi Classics

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• There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Faith, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1971). “the Stars in their Courses”

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• 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.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, People

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• With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

  Criss Jami

  Pride, Men, Too Much

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.58, Criss Jami

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Belief, Sensible

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

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

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Stupid, Arrogant, Young

  "'The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 29, 2005.

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wisdom, Witty, Clever

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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