Quotes About Being Foolish

#1. 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

#2. It's better to remain silent and give the impression of being foolish then to speak and remove all doubt.

Rami Belson

#3. he guessed they all knew what he'd done and counted him foolish for blatantly going against their boss. Well, he reasoned as he dropped his jacket over the high back of his chair, there was a Bible verse about the world's wisdom being foolish in the sight of God.

Kim Vogel Sawyer

#4. And I remember being foolish enough to think... let's fall in love.

Jeph Loeb

#5. I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It's not divine madness like some people think, there's no such thing as divine madness, madness is just madness. Love is hallucinating without drugs.

Louis Nowra

#6. 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

#7. I've been foolish." (Hester)
"I hope you at least had a grand time being foolish." (Ariadne)

Grace Burrowes

#8. Foolish heart, I thought. I don't have time for you.
But my heart, being foolish, did not listen.

Devon Monk

#9. Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish. I read his book 'On Writing' before I read pretty much any of his fiction.

Michael Koryta

#10. Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

Art Garfunkel

#11. You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

Tom Wilkinson

#12. 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

#13. How foolish we are to keep repeating the negative memories from the past in our minds, while rarely thinking of the good times, nor being thankful for what we have. Be good to yourself and repeat and focus on the positive.

Maddy Malhotra

#14. And not being guided into action by foolish thought is what is known as "wisdom" (prajna).

Zen Master So Sahn

#15. You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

Iain Glen

#16. Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.

Bernard Darwin

#17. Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

Theophile Gautier

#18. ... now that I'm stuck here for an undetermined amount of time, it seems beyond foolish not to let me help." She took a bite for emphasis. "You could at least let me make you a sandwich," she added balefully through her mouthful.
"That was me being respectful of your law degree," Ian said.

Suzanne Brockmann

#19. But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

Mary Jo Putney

#20. I don't like being dared - it's aggressive, a trap to make people feel foolish.

Rachel M. Wilson

#21. I didn't know what being young had to do with it. It seemed to me that older people could do foolish things just as easily as young ones. I had certainly seen older people do some very foolish things.

Catherine M. Wilson

#22. The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

Swami Muktananda

#23. XV. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And

Marcus Aurelius

#24. Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

C.S. Lewis

#25. Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

Rajneesh

#26. But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies - about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are - all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. - It is a regular thing

Jane Austen

#27. Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped ... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.

E. Nesbit

#28. Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.

Ashton Kutcher

#29. Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.

Anne Lamott

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

Peter Ustinov

#31. There is a thin line of difference in being courageous and foolish!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#32. Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#33. People are hated a lot of places. Claire pointed out in her letter that Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#34. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision.

James Joyce

#35. Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish
to just ask the question.

Melissa Senate

#36. Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

Shannon L. Alder

#37. But you don't even like being a Fool!" "I hate it. But that's got nothing to do with it. If I've got to be a Fool, I'll do it properly." "That's really stupid," said Magrat. "Foolish, I'd prefer." The

Terry Pratchett

#38. Being attractive for a few hours some evening is hardly worth being that unattractive all day (in hot rollers). Being yourself and being natural with a man is wonderful, but being downright unattractive with him is foolish.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#39. Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

Paul C. Nagel

#40. And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that.

Sylvain Reynard

#41. Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

Mona Charen

#42. Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.

Cameron Stracher

#43. What a foolish thing, the human heart, being both fragile and reckless. No wonder we spend such an inordinate amount of time in pain.

Eliza Crewe

#44. A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

Ozzy Osbourne

#45. There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.

Autre Ne Veut

#46. We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

Mary Russell Mitford

#47. Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Igor Stravinsky

#48. I behave myself, but it doesn't mean I'm not interested. Being faithful to my commitments doesn't mean thoughts don't cross my mind or that I'm foolish enough to believe I'm not capable.

Patricia Cornwell

#49. You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

Dean Koontz

#50. Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Allan Lokos

#51. Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself: What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake, feeling rejected, looking foolish, or being alone? I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you've been searching for comes into focus.

Oprah Winfrey

#52. I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Charles Bukowski

#53. 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

#54. But even brave people are afraid on occasion. Sometimes fear can protect us from being too foolish or reckless.

Jody Hedlund

#55. I'd been on the precipice of being brave, and nothing can make a person more foolish and vulnerable than bravery.

Penny Reid

#56. Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Cher

#57. But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.

Stefan Zweig

#58. I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

John Ruskin

#59. Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

Blaise Pascal

#60. It's hard to imagine you and Daddy as ever being young and foolish. I figured you just appeared one day, fully grown and knowing all the answers, she teased.

Sharon M. Draper

#61. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.

Steve Biddulph

#62. Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.

Criss Jami

#63. The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination.

David Bergen

#64. And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

Iain Pears

#65. You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#66. There were worse things than being young and foolish.

Cathie Pelletier

#67. If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician.
If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.

Jerry Andrus

#68. Why would the Prime Minister make such an order, Mr. Chaudhry?" the General leaned forward to put out the barely smoked cigarette. "Would you advise him to do such a foolish thing? Are you tired of being in government already?" A barely noticeable sneer crept across his battle-worn face.

Khalid Muhammad

#69. Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.

David Cross

#70. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#71. It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.

Thubten Yeshe

#72. We ought to be afraid of being afraid, lest we should vex the Holy Spirit by foolish distrust.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#73. Effort for the sake of effort is as foolish a tradition as paying dues. How much better is hard work when it's amplified by a lever? Platforms teach us skills and allow us to focus on being great, rather than reinventing wheels or repeating ourselves.

Shane Snow

#74. Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.

T.D. Jakes

#75. My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

Amy Tan

#76. He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful.

Charlaine Harris

#77. That grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.

Anne Lamott