Foolishness Quotes - Page 14

• It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

  Publilius Syrus

  Fear, Foolish

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• I have no time for babbling foolishness.” “Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.

  Eoin Colfer

  Said, Hasty, Babbling

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “Airman”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• ... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?

  Frances Wright

  Education, Wise, Religious

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• She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Men, Order

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• I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).

  Frances Trollope

  Silly, America, Class

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press

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• And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Thinking, Century, Humans

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• Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Dream, Tea

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing

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• Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.

  Louis Pasteur

  Philosophy, Laughing, Sublime

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• It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

  Homer

  Fate, Insightful, Hardship

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• The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

  Arthur Helps

  Ignorance

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Vanity, Rome, Despair

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1028, e-artnow

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  Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

  Euripides

  Relationship, Stupid, Communication

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Fashion, Prayer

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Age, World

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• A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

  Max Gluckman

  Teaching, Learning, Science

  Max Gluckman (2012). “Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society”, p.32, AldineTransaction

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• He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream.

  Zhuangzi

  Dream, Believe, Doe

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• The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

  Huey Newton

  Wise, Suicide, Moving

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.276, Penguin

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• Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

  Kevin Hearne

  Wise, Long Ago, People

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.776, Del Rey

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• Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Would Be, Kind, Certain

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• That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect... why can't I have it? Did you pity me? Up until now, I was just powerless and pitiful to you. So you thought I'd take any helping hand offered to me. Right?

  Jo Yoon-hee

  Drama, Pride, Hands

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• Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Strength, Christian, Mean

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• There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

  Pete Seeger

  Music, Beautiful, Selfishness

  "The Pete Seeger Reader".

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• There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.

  Guy Davenport

  Horse, Athlete, Pride

  "Eclogues: Eight Stories".

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• If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Men, Fool

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.9166, Delphi Classics

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