Sentence examples for a foolish thought from inspiring English sources

But I had to smile at such a foolish thought — indeed, how could I ever know?

A foolish thought, pushed away.

Yet it is not a foolish idea.

But perceptions matter and Help to Buy may be encouraging the foolish thought among stretched borrowers that London houses are always a one-way bet.

Such foolish thoughts as a man may have in secret.

In his third verse he asked his unknowable friend in the far future: Have you wine and music still, And statues and a bright-eyed love, And foolish thoughts of good and ill.

Just as the path to scientific discovery is a matter of trial-and-error, so too the road to an original idea, a great book, or a transformative social movement will always be littered with foolish thoughts, indelicate statements, and all kinds of verbal rubbish that may offend all kinds of powerful people.

So it was that "the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts" and to succumb to such thoughts in the political realm.

It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

"[T]he slovenliness of our language," George Orwell reminds, "makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts". The more foolish our thoughts, the more "ugly and inaccurate" our language becomes.

Perhaps it was a foolish assumption, but the thought arose that the memorial might attract more people, even on a day unwarmed by a poor ghost of a sun.