Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.
All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.
Trump's election is generally bad news. . . . In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would be widely experienced throughout the Islamic world as a provocation.
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.