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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
Sep 10, 2025
You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.
Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.
I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.
A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.
And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.
But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart
That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.
It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.
We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.
We're living in a literary age, at least in America, that is marked by a sense of distance, a coolness, in all senses of that word. To be too obviously, unapologetically emotional is to risk being considered foolish, or at the very least not serious.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy.
By the way, that's a far less expensive solution than other very foolish solutions I've heard. The veterans love it, they love it. But it's a far better solution than anything anybody's heard and its common sense and it's there.The doctors need the business and the private hospitals and public hospitals need the business and they're sitting there, waiting. So we don't have a choice. We have to do that.
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.
You need to work yourself up into some kind of a state every morning and believe that you are doing something terribly important upon which the future of literature, if not the world, depends. Buddhism tells you that this is just a foolish fantasy. So, I try not to think too much about Buddhism early in the morning. From noon on, I think about it.
I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.
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.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?
We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.