Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices. . . . The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.
Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?
But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?
True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.
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.
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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.
I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.
The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.
Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.
To say what your disguise is would be foolish.
In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. . . . We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.
Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.
It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.