Foolish Quotes

“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

“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, The Dragonbone Chair

“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 De Spinoza, Ethics

“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, Venus in Arms

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
― Rob Liano

“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“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, The Shockwave Rider

“I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I am looking for the one I can’t fool.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.”
― Bob Marley, Bob Marley - Legend

“We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?”
― Judith McNaught, Whitney, My Love

“Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.”
― Jacques Ranciere

“You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“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

“You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.”
― Dee Remy, There Once Was A Boy

“Only the fearless made proceed.
Brave ones, foolish ones.
Both walk not the middle road.”
― Toby Fox

“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”
― Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.”
― William Shatner

“I don’t care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.”
― Lord Mahāvīra

“I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become foolish.”
― Tony Gaskins

“You know, in my opinion, being ridiculous is sometimes even a good thing, and better than that: we can forgive one another more quickly, and acquire humility more quickly; after all, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin directly from perfection! In order to achieve perfection, we must first of all fail to understand a great many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand very well.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot