A Quote by Dorothy Day

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day
American - Activist
November 8, 1897 - November 29, 1980

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Anton Chekhov

I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.

Lara Flynn Boyle

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.

Leo Buscaglia

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

Diane Johnson

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

Abraham Maslow

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

Alec Guinness

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

Ruth Rendell

Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.

Paulo Coelho

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

P. J. O'Rourke

We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.

Frank Pittman

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

Elbert Hubbard

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

Tom Robbins

I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.

Rainbow Rowell

Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.

Christopher Paolini

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