Foolishness Quotes - Page 13

• My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people's rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.

  Ray Comfort

  Believe, Mean, Mind

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• I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

  Dick Cavett

  Teacher, Sorry, Home

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.129, Henry Holt and Company

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• Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Knowledge, Imagination, Fool

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• Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Optimism, Excess

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

  Chanakya

  House, Youth, Painful

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• There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, Giving, Trying

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Laughter, Suffering

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• There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Inspirational, Life, Women

  "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics". "The Village Voice" Magazine, 1983.

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• Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Agreement, Holiness, Benefits

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.67, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

  Pythagoras

  Communication, Men, Acting

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• The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

  Socrates

  Girl, Thinking, People

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• And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

  Sophocles

  Eye, Thinking, Stupidity

  "Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus".

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• I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, People, Ifs

  "The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press". Book by Rajneesh, 1985.

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• We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Worry, Would Be

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• People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, People, Suffering

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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

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• There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of the world is so that no argument could be made later that certain people were advantaged in some unfair way by that which was unearned-either in the premortal life or here. Hence it seems prudent for us to realize that just because one is set apart or ordained to a certain calling or assignment he or she must not expect to be set apart from the stresses of life. There appear to be no immunities.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Stress, Justice Of God

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• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

  Arnold Bennett

  Time, Stupid, Men

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• Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sleep, Apes

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• Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

  Sidney Hook

  Ignorance, Doe, Hook

  Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

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• Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

  Russell Baker

  Military, Years, Age

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• A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

  Al Bernstein

  Money, Stupid, Publicity

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• When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free.

  Lenore Terr

  Life Lesson, Past, Self

  Lenore Terr (2000). “Beyond Love and Work: Why Adults Need to Play”, Touchstone Books

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