Fooled Quotes - Page 5

• I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

  Will Christopher Baer

  Stupid, Fingers, Lifts

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• Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.

  Lynn Austin

  Eye, Simple, Men

  Lynn Austin (2016). “The Chronicles of the Kings Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.83, Baker Books

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• Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Memories, Science, Intelligent

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

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• I can tell how lonely I am by how easily I'm fooled by a mannequin in a store.

  Demetri Martin

  Lonely, Stores, I Can

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• How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

  George A. Smith

  Religious, Men, Self Reliance

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• Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Experts, Slavery, Fancy

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by Buckminster Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1968.

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• While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.

  Barton Seaver

  Thinking, Fire, Order

  "Sustainable Grilling With Barton Seaver". Interview with Esther Sung, www.epicurious.com. May 21, 2013.

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• What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

  William Saroyan

  Children, People, Special

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• If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

  Ted Williams

  Motivational, Baseball, Two

  Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

  Jayson Blair

  People, Brilliant, Journalism

  Jayson Blair (2004). “Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times”, New Millenium

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• Time in the heart and sequence in the brain--
  
  Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine.
  And let us then take godhead by the neck--
  And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

  Conrad Aiken

  Time, Heart, Brain

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

  Criss Angel

  Children, Long, Firsts

  "Criss Angel Creates Phenomenon!". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 14, 2007.

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• Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

  Mason Cooley

  Wise, Aphorism, Considering

  "City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to business are necessary, but they rarely result in achieving a large fortune. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich, he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

  Julius Rosenwald

  Smart, Believe, Hard Work

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• The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, All Time

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.69, North Atlantic Books

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• The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.

  Bert Blyleven

  Hurt, Kids, Years

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• Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that I don't realize it until someone else says, "You know, that person is an asshole." So I'll be fooled by selective assholes sometimes . . . lately.

  Emma Stone

  Nice, People, Sometimes

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• If you think that UFOs will come and save you, don't be fooled. The Nazis invented UFOs.

  Eric Burdon

  Thinking, Nazi, Ufo

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• If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Emotional, Light

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• Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Envy, Disease, Green

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• Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Communism

  "The Africans" by David Lamb, (p. 61), 1982.

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• Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Different, Human Nature, Vulnerable

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• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Principles, Way, Fool

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.343, Random House

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• I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.

  Burleigh Grimes

  May

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• The stock market can be fooled, but not forever.

  Leo Hindery

  Forever

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