Be Foolish Quotes

#1. You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

Louise Colet

#2. Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#3. To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

John McAfee

#4. Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.

Andrew Skurka

#5. If you don't want to be foolish, don't try to fool anyone.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.

Sandy Fussell

#7. For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

Confucius

#8. The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering
a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

John Piper

#9. If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.

Jack White

#10. It's easy to be foolish ... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do the human things, like fall in love with somebody when you know that there's no point and when you know, too, that it's just going to make you unhappy.

Alexander McCall Smith

#11. The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

Diane Johnson

#12. Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind.

Fuyumi Soryo

#13. I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

Jeanette MacDonald

#14. If someone says " I love you " it would be foolish to say " I love you too " So you say " I knoe " tht is trulie wht love is. <3

Melissa De La Cruz

#15. It will be foolish not to get your heart broken, even once.
For having a broken heart makes you realize the immense capability it possesses to mend and heal itself and to love far more intensely,with every affixed piece of it that was once broken and torn apart..

Sanhita Baruah

#16. My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman.

Radclyffe Hall

#17. Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. "The great advantage," she said, "of being thought silly, is that people forget and begin to think one might also be foolish. I may, Professor Lyall, be a trifle enthusiastic in my manner and dress, but I am no fool.

Gail Carriger

#18. 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

#19. Either he trusts me, or he's just that foolish. Probably both. He'd certainly have to be foolish to trust me.

Amie Kaufman

#20. It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

Alain De Botton

#21. You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.

Aaron Copland

#22. Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

Alcuin

#23. A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

Charlie Munger

#24. It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

Albert Einstein

#25. Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.

George Herbert

#26. Molotov explained how that book, should one be foolish enough to open it, gave the power to read things and creatures out of any book in the world.

Cornelia Funke

#27. Don't be afraid to be weird, don't be afraid to be different, don't worry too much about what other people think. Whatever it is that's original in you and your work might sometimes make you feel uncomfortable. That probably means you're on the right track, so just keep going.
Dare to be foolish.

Terri Windling

#28. No one else was there, with the weather like this. If I still lived there, I'd be indoors too. It's a visitor's privilege to be foolish.

Jeanette Winterson

#29. I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

Robyn Davidson

#30. It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.

Dennis Adonis

#31. One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.

Julius Streicher

#32. It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?

Vincent Massey

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

Bertrand Russell

#34. Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

John Maynard Keynes

#36. A reluctance to acknowledge that there may be wisdom in youth would be foolish.

Terry Brooks

#37. I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.

Mary Beth Chapman

#38. It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

Jennifer Beals

#39. It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

John Maynard Keynes

#40. There's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

George Horace Lorimer

#41. I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't it be foolish, knowing that nothing lasts forever, to insist that one has a right to do something that does?
[ ... ]but, if eternity existed, it would be this moment.

Yukio Mishima

#42. An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.

Glenn Ford

#43. I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science, almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.

Theodore Von Karman

#44. So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

Ernest Llewellyn Woodward

#45. There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first inspecting it thoroughly.

Mary Balogh

#46. I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

Damien Rice

#47. If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get.

Rob Reiner

#48. It would be foolish, I think, to judge a whole people by the actions of a few vile souls. Foolish as well as misguiding.

Scott Oden

#49. I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?

Christopher Lee

#50. I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

Jonathan Frakes

#51. 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.

Chris Oyakhilome

#52. We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

Wayne Pacelle

#53. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

Willa Cather

#54. Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.

Patrick DeWitt

#55. I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#56. Keep your negativity to yourself. After watching you poison your own life with your opinions, I would be foolish to let you do the same to mine.

Steve Maraboli

#57. Who are these people?" my mother asked.
"Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?

Richelle Mead

#58. I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all ... a day ... an hour.

George R R Martin

#59. I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

Djuna Barnes

#60. The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.

Bela Karolyi

#61. I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.

Jim Parsons

#62. 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

#63. Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

Victor Hugo

#64. An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon ...

Joseph Plaskett

#65. I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Barry Goldwater

#66. To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.

Kevin DeYoung

#67. The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People want a fool to be foolish
trip on banana peels and grin and spout nonsense. These men want fools to make them feel better about themselves, not to remind them what they lack.

Kelli Swofford Nielsen

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

Peter Ustinov

#69. Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

Dean Koontz

#70. It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.

Max Stirner

#71. To love women. To pleasure them, to make them laugh. To be foolish for them. To protect them. To respect them. To listen to them. They are life-givers. To live is to love them.

Pete Hamill

#72. In Hell, you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#73. I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

Thomas Jane

#74. I know you think me foolish, but then, I am the Fool. You know then I must be Foolish.

Robin Hobb

#75. The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

#76. Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?

Nadege Richards

#77. It would be foolish to be frightened by death, because all of us, sooner or later, are going to die. And only those who accept this fact are prepared for life.

Paulo Coelho

#78. Our fates are locked together. It would be foolish of me to anger God by leaving you.

Mark Tompkins

#79. I'd be foolish if I didn't return her interest." He puffed out his chest. "And no one has ever called me a fool."
Rosika's jaw tightened. She rubbed her temples. "I'm giving it some serious consideration.

Jess Schira

#80. I'd be foolish not to take some of opportunities that are coming my way. We all know this can go away at any moment.

Kim Kardashian

#81. Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.

Ikechukwu Izuakor

#82. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

Black Elk

#83. Freedom includes the freedom to be foolish, to be sick. Free choice includes the freedom to choose badly.

Peter Huber

#84. Do not wish your life away, " Grandfather would tell her. "None of us know the number of days we are allotted. It would be foolish to discard any of them.

Tracie Peterson

#85. Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#86. And for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship - pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we were to be afraid of loneliness.

Graham Greene

#87. Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Epictetus

#88. The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?

Galileo Galilei

#89. I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
In every one of these no man is free ...

William Shakespeare

#90. they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ROM1.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Anonymous

#91. And why do you ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish questions? How could it depend on my decision? Who has made me the judge to decide who ought to live and out ought not to live?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#92. One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Michel De Montaigne

#93. If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

William Blake

#94. Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.

Leigh Ann Henion

#95. [I]t seems to be just as foolish to say, 'I imagine, in order to understand more clearly what I am,' as to say, 'I am now clearly awake and I see something true, but because I do not yet see it clearly enough I shall fall asleep so that my dreams will represent it to me more truly and clearly.

Rene Descartes

#96. You may be practical, but I am not foolish. Only a woman testing a man tells him not to bother." His eyes glinted. "It's a trap - to see if I'm stupid enough to believe your shameless lies.

Emma Alisyn

#97. It is foolish to be in thrall to fame and fortune, engaged in painful striving all your life with never a moment of peace and tranquillity.

Yoshida Kenko

#98. I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.

Teresa Of Avila

#99. Maybe if the death had occurred on the other side of the street, I'd be watching from here with different kids, acting as foolish. Maybe the difference between horror and holiday was just the width of an ordinary street.

Dean Koontz

#100. One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo