Foolish Quotes

• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

  Bruce Lee

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Patience, Stupid, Ignorance

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

  Epictetus

  Life, Stupid, Silly

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5

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• The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

  Mink Stole

  Travel, Hurt, Adventure

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• Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

  John Ray

  Education, Wise, Learning

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• Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

  Maurice Freehill

  Fear, Children, Dark

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• We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Stupid, Done, Economy

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Front Cover Friedrich August Hayek, 1944.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Stupid, Unification Church, World

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• As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Time, Silly, Age

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1655.

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• The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Character, Mean

  "American Masonic Register and Literary Companion", Volume 1, (p. 163), 1829.

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• It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

  Aeschylus

  Funny, Wise, Stupid

  Aeschylus, David Grene (1959). “Aeschylus”

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• Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Apathy, Satisfaction

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

  Cher

  Inspirational, Courage, Greatness

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• Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Stupid, Journey

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• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teacher

  "The New York World-Telegram and Sun" Newspaper, 1961.

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• Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

  Anatole France

  Art, Atheist, Stupid

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• 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

  Business, Stupid, Men

  Attributed to Barry Goldwater in: Conference Board, Across the board. Vol. 15. p. 74, 1978.

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• The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

  Martin Luther

  Money, People, Giving

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• Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

  Judith Viorst

  Superstitions, Doe, Cost

  Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

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