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Foolish Quotes
Sharp lines on folly, arrogance, and misplaced confidence.
This page gathers pointed observations about foolish behavior, including comfort in complacency and the risks of overestimating one's audience. For a related take on cleverness gone wrong, see the Fool quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Happiness
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
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I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
- Beauty
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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.
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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
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- Nov 07, 2020