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Quotes About Foolish

I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.
~ Thomas Moore
Hi shook his head. "The guy's not a rocket scientist. Or a rock scientist. He's dumb, is what I'm saying.
~ Kathy Reichs
One soldier picked up a dead Argentine, supported the corpse's weight underneath his arm, put a cigarette in the dead man's mouth, then one in his own. He then held a lighter under the corpse's cigarette and his friend took a photograph. They both laughed. I also laughed. This was foolish ? smoking can kill.
~ Ken Lukowiak
The genius who doesn't imagine is merely a brilliant idiot.
~ Kenneth Wilkinson
Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers.
~ C. Ryland
Stupid, even.
~ C.J. Box
It seemed foolish and wasteful and wonderful—to live as if the sky were endless and time itself had no measure.
~ Cameron Stracher
Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.
~ Cameron Stracher
Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
~ Gelett Burgess
How do you know they are Hunters?" Lucien asked. "They had guns and knives strapped to their bodies, and I saw the mark of infinity on one of their wrists." Branding themselves was foolish, if you asked him. Like putting a neon sign around their necks that read 'Shoot here'.
~ Gena Showalter
Please," she cried. "Please." A fierce roar split the night, shaking the ground, rattling the trees. Suddenly Maddox was beside her again, drowning out the voices. "Foolish Bait," he spat. More to himself, he added, "Foolish warrior." Crying
~ Gena Showalter
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
~ Isaac Asimov
There's no record in the history of the Galaxy of any society being so foolish as to use nuclear explosions as a weapon of war.
~ Isaac Asimov
If you think that those who are left, with practically no knowledge of the elements of science, or worse, still, with the distorted knowledge the priests receive, can penetrate at a bound to nuclear power, to electronics, to the theory of the hyperwarp – you have a very romantic and very foolish idea of science. It takes lifetimes of training and an excellent brain to get that far.
~ Isaac Asimov
It is an affair of a romantic idiot; but even a romantic idiot can be a deadly weapon when an unromantic rebel uses him as a tool.
~ Isaac Asimov
as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required....the presence of others can only inhibit this process, since creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred...foolish ones, which you naturally do not care to display.
~ Isaac Asimov
He lives in the past. He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.
~ Isaac Asimov
Unsafe, sire. He lives in the past. He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.
~ Isaac Asimov
Thou, oh my country, hast thy foolish ways, Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
~ Heinrich Heine
A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.
~ Matthew
I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!
~ Melissa Rivers