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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

M. C. Escher

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Aeschylus

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Epictetus

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Hermann Hesse

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.

Cardinal de Retz

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

If you are foolish enough to establish a link to an agent of the Chinese government then the only person hurt by that would be you.

Brian Clarke

At this point, it's so uncertain ... that it would be foolish to speculate on a date.

Bill Gerstenmaier

I'm foolish enough to believe she's still alive.

Gwen Smith

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

We've seen so many foolish happenings at companies where the auditors don't do their job.

John Gilbert

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

I used a common New York expression that means you're foolish.

Alfonse D'amato

They do not have to take our advice but if something like this happens they look a bit foolish.

Rob Anderson

That it is dangerous for foolish young women to -- to -- to -- to get involved in things that are not --not where they should be involved.

Marcia Lewis

I think that would be foolish. He's one of a kind.

Mike Pearson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They really are engaged in their own Manhattan project. And they are deadly serious about this. And it would be foolish to underestimate their capacity and their will here.

Marc Gerecht

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Anton Chekhov

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

Francis I

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Friedrich August Hayek

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Diane Ackerman

[Develop a contingency plan.] We tell clients, 'Don't be so foolish as to believe you'll never be successfully hit,' ... Develop a plan, so when things do go sour, you're ready.

Ben Venzke

Sex is harmful to young adolescents -- to pretend otherwise is foolish.

Steve Alexander

Most penalties are a lack of concentration and that's what ate us up. We made some foolish penalties and had some concentration and focus issues.

Todd Boward

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

William Lamb Melbourne

It seems foolish, to me, to not want to have access to this information.

Larry Gamache

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

By committing foolish acts, one learns wisdom.

Singhalese Proverb

I feel foolish and I feel betrayed, ... I otherwise feel I was being cheated on. She was very convincing when she told me I was the only person who could be the father.

Anthony Flores

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Horace Walpole

Bob feels foolish about doing what he did. All he had to do was ask to go to the Galleria or ask to go to Galveston and they probably would have given him permission.

Dick Deguerin

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

Sydney Smith

Fools are not Foolish.

Atom Egoyan

As observers, it would be foolish not to see challenges.

Brian Partridge

All he would have had to do was ask and get permission and he could have gone shopping at the Galleria, but he didn't. He feels very foolish about doing this.

Dick Deguerin

EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides

It would have been foolish for two or three labs to carry this out at the same time and compete with each other.

Barry Wanner

You don't want any buyer to feel like he's been foolish or cheated. So they all get the same price.

Bill Hambrecht

Bob feels foolish. All he had to do was ask to go to the Galleria or ask to go to Galveston and they probably would have given him permission.

Dick Deguerin

I believe strongly in staying out of that. I think it's a dangerous and foolish business.

Brian Ballard

It seems to me to be a reckless and foolish act that is going to be very costly.

Andres Perez

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Daniel Ellsberg

We intend to pursue attorneys' fees against the plaintiff and the attorney if they are so foolish as to file suit.

John Bowen

Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?

Obi Wan Kenobi

Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals.

Maori Proverb

Very foolish to underestimate the potential for the disease to spread.

David Byrne

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

Lee Tergesen

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth.

Francois Villon

A foolish fox is caught by one leg, but a wise one by all four.

Serbian Proverb

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

We refuse to go into foolish debt to pay for it.

Ted Christman

We never made the adjustments, and he made us look foolish.

Eric Bryan

When they offer things like this, it would be foolish to not take advantage of it.

Elizabeth Kelly