Sentence examples for foolish belief from inspiring English sources

It's a foolish belief that the present is so important that the future can be ignored.

When the truth becomes clear they are ashamed of their own foolish belief, and also feel violated.

Then, in the last year, this had become not a foolish belief at all but in both their minds, she thought, a certainty.

It is not just time that menaces our capacity to love; it is the clutter of daily existence that refuses to make way for us or to respect our foolish belief that, in our rushes of bliss, we are all that truly matters on the planet.

In making these claims about nature and virtue, Shaftesbury opposed those anti-innatists (such as Locke) whom he took to hold that morality originates solely custom, fashion, or education, a view that Shaftesbury thought people were drawn to in part by a foolish belief in ridiculous travel stories.

My doctors and I were both to blame for this foolish belief.

Clinton should read, and then quickly pass along, "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts," by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.

One of his key points is to make sure you are not led by foolish beliefs.

Then the spread of modern education and a campaign to eradicate "foolish popular beliefs" stamped them out of the public consciousness.

"At a time when their numbers are to increase beyond belief, it seems foolish to put the organisation with the expertise and skills at working with that cohort of people at risk".

He was referencing economists' propensity to intervene in the world, particularly their foolish (or so he thought) belief that one can achieve full employment by manipulating aggregate demand.