Foolishness Quotes - Page 5

• The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Wisdom, Survival

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• The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wise, Travel, Men

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• Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Church, Rooms

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.111

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• We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

  Saint Augustine

  Serpent

  St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

  Alistair Begg

  Powerful, Impact, Crosses

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• Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Ignorance, Self, Injustice

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• Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Society, Foolish, Young

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• As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Denial, Height

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”, p.5, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Purpose, Chance

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• God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Shapes, Speak, Metaphor

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

  Louie Giglio

  Captivity, Want, Foolish

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• I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

  David Gerrold

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teenage, Talking, Vanity

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Nov 08, 2015

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• Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Example, Add, Want

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• Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

  George Horace Lorimer

  College, Fool, College Life

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• Lord, what fools these mortals be!

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Stupid People

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 115

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• Only stupid questions create wealth.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Wealth, Stupid Questions

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• The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  Paul Valery

  Truth, Honesty, Spring

  "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci". Book by Paul Valery, 1895.

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• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Mothers Day, Mom, Women

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• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Business, Stupid

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Witty, Kings

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

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• The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

  Lillian Hellman

  Memories, Past, Punishment

  Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”

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