There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.
Diets are a fool's errand.
Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.
Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.
Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
A fool is wise in his eyes.
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.