Foolish Quotes - Page 34

• I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

  Danny Boyle

  Would Be, Way, Film

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Single Person, Persons

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the Winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis in Malibu, California, shop.lairdhamilton.com. December 1, 2014.

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• In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Self, Centeredness, World

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• ...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Silly, Names

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Practice, Names

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• Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

  Khalil Gibran

  Ignorant, Arguing, Drunkards

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• The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

  Epictetus

  Use, Littles, Educated

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• Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Passion, Men

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.

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• Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

  Pete Dexter

  Looks, Tradition

  Pete Dexter (2013). “The Paperboy”, p.27, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.

  Jaida Jones

  Self, Matter, Felt

  Jaida Jones, Danielle Bennett (2008). “Havemercy”, p.155, Spectra

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• Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Thinking, Clouds, Evil

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.36, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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• It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

  Brian Herbert

  Leader, Groups, Humans

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2002). “Dune: House Corrino”, p.333, Spectra

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• Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Shapes, Want

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• The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Ideas, Discovery

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• 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

  Morning, Believe, Buddhism

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Italian, Taxes Funny

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• Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Running, Long, Welcome

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• We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.

  David Hilbert

  Philosophical, Believe, Self

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• All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Wise, Differences, Appreciate

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• The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Giving, Failing

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Sick, Suffering

  Richard Baxter (1654). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest”

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• A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Men, Foolish Man, House

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• Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Country, Art

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• A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.

  James Boswell

  Men, Shoes, Feet

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• I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

  Ernie Pyle

  Jobs, Play, Trying

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