Foolish Quotes

Sleep not with an albatross unless you wish your dreams to fly away.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

~ Baruch Spinoza

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

~ Criss Jami

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

~ Tad Williams

There are two kinds of fools. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.

~ John Brunner

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Foolishness is not a lack of resources, it's the lack of wisdom.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

~ Dee Remy

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am looking for the one I can’t fool.

~ Kamand Kojouri

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

~ Criss Jami

Only foolish fishes wish to fly!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

~ Plato

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.

~ Criss Jami

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

~ Mark Batterson

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

One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

~ Rob Liano

It is better to be foolish wise than wise foolish.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don’t care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish.

~ Santosh Kalwar

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything I touch is you. How foolish I was when you live in my toes so that everywhere I go there's you. How senseless of me to say you live in my heart when you breathe in my lungs, walk on my mind, and drink in my mouth. I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

21. Take in a great breath of air and then blow it out. Contained in that single breath were at least three nitrogen atoms that were breathed by every human being who ever lived, including Jesus Christ, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and every president of the United States. This illustrates the fact that everything we do affects other people, positively or negatively. That’s why it is foolish to say, “Do your own thing if it doesn’t hurt anybody else.” Everything we do affects other people.

~ James C. Dobson

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

~ Anthony Ryan

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