Quotes: Foolishness

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Golda Meir

Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We’re also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don’t understand time.

Hugh Leonard

Irish writer

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let’s get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Afrika Bambaataa

American DJ, record producer and rapper

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

French playwright and filmmaker (1885-1957)

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

Brock Yates

American motorsport journalist (1933-2016)

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace

Roman lyric poet

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn’t necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Leon Kass

American academic

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Sidney Hook

American philosopher

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Afrika Bambaataa

American DJ, record producer and rapper

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