Foolish Quotes

• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

  Bruce Lee

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

  Lucille Ball

  Stupid, Trying, Tvs

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

  Karl Kraus

  Success, Education, Wise

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

  Tiger Woods

  Money, Stupid, Believe

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• 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.

  Kirk Cameron

  Atheist, Atheism, Done

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• 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.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Girl, Stupid, Mistake

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• I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Stupid, Thinking, Rocks

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• The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

  C. S. Forester

  Stupid, Fool, I Realized

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• If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

  Anatole France

  Funny, Wisdom, Stupid

  "Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication". Book by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, 1954.

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• God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  God, Christian, Wise

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

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• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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• Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Fun, World Suffering, People

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

  Steve Jobs

  Stanford University, Wish, Graduates

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

  Euripides

  Relationship, Stupid, Communication

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

  Diane Ravitch

  Stupid, Past, Ideas

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  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Wise, Wisdom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2909, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Stay hungry, stay foolish.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Memorable

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Stupid, Water

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

  Alice Walker

  People, Wish, Literature

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