Quotes About Foolish

More awful than the fear of danger was the fear of looking foolish—of being excited when others were laid back—of being somehow manipulated

they could not see how the North could be so foolish as to determinedly prevent the extension of Slavery." Doing so would harm industry and commerce—which was all they thought truly mattered in the North. "This was the end of their track.

The solipsistic conceit of the age—that the young would change the world by 'doing their own thing', 'letting it all hang out' and 'making love, not war'—was always an illusion, and it has not worn well. But it was not the only illusion of the time, and by no means the most foolish.

Foolish is he who builds an empire where the sole foundation is of worldly clay

he guessed they all knew what he'd done and counted him foolish for blatantly going against their boss. Well, he reasoned as he dropped his jacket over the high back of his chair, there was a Bible verse about the world's wisdom being foolish in the sight of God.

Only a fool would be fighting them, my queen, and though I am a fool, I'm not that foolish. (Lutian)

Tell me," he whispered, "why it is you alone hold no fear of me?" "I can't imagine. Surely I am foolish. Aelfa assures me you eat small children every morn to break your fast. Do you?" "Nay, I find them to be too harsh on the belly. All that moving around once they're swallowed. Not worth the effort, really." -Sin & Callie

Poetry and science are both manifestations of the spirit that creates new ways of thinking the world, in order to understand it better. Great science and great poetry are both visionary, and sometimes may arrive at the same insights. The culture of today that keeps science and poetry so far apart is essentially foolish, to my way of thinking, because it makes us less able to see the complexity and the beauty of the world as revealed by both.

People who hate often do very foolish things.

There is a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid. - Tywin Lannister

What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise!

It seems to me that a queen who trusts no one is as foolish as a queen who trusts everyone.

Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man.

Jaime," she said, tugging on his ear, "sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna's breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there's some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak … but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you. I said so once to your father's face, and he would not speak to me for half a year. Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

April, Comes like an idiot, babbling, and strewing flowers.

He multiplieth words without knowledge.

I have reached a conclusion: there is no such thing as inspiration. I thought so once, and made an ass of myself accordingly.

Life is crazy. The foolish thing is thinking it isn't.

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.

It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.