Sometimes it makes sense to be a fool

By | March 21, 2022

You’re going to look like a fool.

Yep, it will happen. It’s happened to me plenty of times. It happens to people who are far more talented and successful.

It happens to all of us.

The difference is in not caring. It’s in embracing your foolishness, and having the courage and ambition to keep trying again. So, here are our 30 quotes about foolishness for April. Check them out, and check out the bonus content while you’re at it: 9 Things Great Leaders Say Every Day.

1. “The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.”

–Marilyn Monroe

2. “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” 

? Elbert Hubbard

3. “Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.” 

?Henry David Thoreau

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

? Alice Walker

5.    “Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.”

–Cher

6.    “I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.”

–Mark Twain

7. “Who’s the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?” 

–Alec Guiness (as Obi Wan Kenobi)

8.    “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

–Bruce Lee

9.    “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.” 

–Benjamin Franklin

10.  “If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.”

–Angelina Jolie

Sometimes it makes sense to be a fool