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“To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.”

“Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.”

“It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.”

Knows Firsts Seems Asks Winning Race Talking Horse Asking Foolish Silly Talking To Him

Author:Gracie Allen

“People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.”

People Ideas Dream Decision Vision Clear Foolish Tendencies Distracted Clear Vision

Author:Andy Stanley

“All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.”

Ifs World Problem Artist Fighting Foolish Making Love

Book:Chuck Berry: The Autobiography

Source: Chuck Berry: The Autobiography

“A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.”

Thinking Approach Strategy Crowds Foolish Polling

Author:Warren Buffett

“Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.”

Foolish Pursuit Gambling

Book:The Gambler

Source: The Gambler

“To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.”

Pay Wise Gains Riches Foolish

Author:Solomon

“We don`t charge people for making a mistake or doing something foolish.”

People Mistake Foolish Making Mistakes

Author:Chaka Fattah

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.”

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Author:Ian Bremmer

“I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires.”

Giving Feels Sometimes Helping My Own Struggle Jokes Foolish Sarcastic Backfire

Author:Nicole Holofcener

“President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.”

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Author:Ted Koppel

“I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart and passing over all the frivolous and weak things that you cannot help seeing there, and for drawing out into the light all the beautiful and radiant things that no one else had looked quite far enough to find.”

Heart Enough Helping Hands Light Beautiful Beauty Seeing Love You Weak Drawing Foolish Passing Passings Belonging Radiant Frivolous

Author:Roy Croft

“A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.”

Ifs Knows Mean Play Helping Hands Lessons Smart Appreciate Refuse Foolish Helpful Why Not

Author:Julie Hebert

“In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.”

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Author:Mike Dooley

“There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.”

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Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.”

Laughing Ought Lessons Laughter Foolish Commit Occasions

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.”

Should Wells Shows Wealth Rich Position Behavior Weakness Brilliant Foolish Ignorant Generous Spite Taoism Wretched Brilliance Reserved Showing Off Spiteful

Author:Zicheng Hong

“You should not be too much of a purist in your way of life, for you need to be able to accept all that is foul. You should not be too clear in making distinctions in social interactions, for you need to accept everyone whether they are good or bad, wise or foolish.”

Way Needs Should Able Social Accepting Clear Too Much Wise Foolish Distinction Taoism Interaction Foul Social Interaction

Author:Zicheng Hong

“It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.”

Men Wise Track Foolish Foolishness

Author:Minna Antrim

“That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I.”

Ifs Hard Problem Amount Models Foolish Socialist

Author:Rafael Cruz

“[Terrorism] is formed of certain fundamental problems, [including] ignorance, poverty, and fear of others. Some people take advantage of the young and foolish. They are manipulated, abused, and even drugged to such an extent that they can be used as murderers on the pretext of some crazy ideals or goals.”

People Problem Young Used Certain Goal Poverty Crazy Ignorance Advantage Ideals Fundamentals Including Terrorism Foolish Murderer Pretext

Author:Fethullah Gulen

“So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.”

People Men Happens Together Wall Men And Women Intelligent Foolish Things Happen Settling Divides Intelligent Man

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“The West's sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming both sides.”

Helping Sides West Foolish Russia Pushing Both Sides Ukraine Sanctions

Author:Vladimir Putin

“It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.”

“Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.”

Peace Teach Wise Foolish Senior

Book:Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

Source: Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

“The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.”

World Use Accomplish Foolish Tone Deaf

Author:Dominic Balli

“Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.”

Art Secret Wise Foolish Motive Most Wise

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“You allow people to represent themselves, and they'll either look smart or foolish on their own; you don't have to do much for them.”

People Looks Smart Foolish

Author:Catherine O'Hara

“People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.”

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Author:Van Jones

“I think If I were to look for the most foolish Clinton supporter and ask you to give them equal time nationally, I could find you some pretty nutty people who are for Hillary Clinton.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Looks Asks Equal Clinton Foolish Supporter Nutty

Author:Newt Gingrich

“But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.”

Done Home Government House Millions Media Institutions Foolish Consistently Lending House Prices

Author:Warren Buffett

“Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.”

Thinking Has Beens Country Difficult Deals Policy Extremes Foolish Russia

Author:Rashid Khalidi

“I may be getting old, but not foolish.”

May Stupid Foolish Getting Old

Author:Elia Kazan

“We've been living in difficult circumstances and we prepare ourselves for every possibility. But that doesn't mean if you're prepared things will be better ; it's going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war.”

Ifs Mean War Difficult Stupid Possibility Circumstances Prepared Strikes Foolish Difficult Circumstances

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“The danger is to cling to comfort and custom at a time when events demand breaking away from both. But it is also foolish to jump at every startling moment. Darwin selects primarily for prudent fast-following.”

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Author:Geoffrey Moore

“Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish.”

Choices Destiny Degrees Consequence Foolish Have Faith Serendipity

Author:Tom Hanks

“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.”

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Author:Richard A. Falk

“Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.”

Men Wise Fool Foolish

Author:Vincent Bugliosi

“We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of poor people are going to remain jobless, locked out of the mainstream economy, unless and until they have a quality education that prepares them well for the new economy. There has got to be much more collaboration between the two movements and a greater appreciation for the work of the advocates in each community. It's got to be a movement that's about education, not incarceration - about jobs, not jails.”

“It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.”

People Thinking States Safe Police Foolish Police State

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves.”

People Persons Whole Interest Struggle Dangerous Depends Institutions Foolish Buddhist Dogma Tibet

Author:Dalai Lama

“If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.”

People Ifs Form Personality Bounds Foolish Temples

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes in whatever creative form; of being on a mission to show that comics are not just for kids; and on a wider level of standing up for individuality against conformity.”

Book Shows Kids Form Enjoy Levels Creative Concern Standing Financial Individuality Missions Foolish Tendencies Despite Variety Artistic Theme Mature Conformity

Author:Sean Michael Wilson

“Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.”

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Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.”

War Would Be Example Identity Foolish Canada

Author:Jane Jacobs

“You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“My personal analysis is that, if you are concerned about U.S. foreign policy and getting into foolish wars, then Hillary Clinton is not your woman. On the other hand, I mean neither is Donald Trump.”

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Author:Julian Assange

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