Foolishness Quotes - Page 7

• I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

  John Donne

  Love, Two, Fool

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Triple Fool'

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• I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be described or explained, that love. I didnt know anything before I had him, and I havent learned anything since I lost him. Everything that isnt loving a child is just for show.

  Haven Kimmel

  Children, Believe, People

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• Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

  Annie Dillard

  World, Not Afraid, Betray

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• Your life may be messed and your foolishness may have put you into captivity but Jesus can do the whatever it is that is immeasurably more in your life.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Captivity, May

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• Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confidence, People, Looks

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “The Last Hero”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

  George Santayana

  Stupid, Ideas, Brain

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.392, 谷月社

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• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Nature, Stupid

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• Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Faith, Emotional, Slavery

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• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5

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• ...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dark, Doors, Spy

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.145, University of Illinois Press

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• Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

  Al Bernstein

  Jobs, Stupid, Done

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• A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Doe, Fool, Pencils

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• Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Logic, Ridicule

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• One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Community, Levels, Conspiracy

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• The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source]
  The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Roots, Ego

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• There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Ignorance, People, Darkness

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• It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.

  Minna Antrim

  Wise, Men, Track

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• Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

  Paul David Tripp

  Stupid, Ignorance, Pride

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• Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Dream, Bamboo

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

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• It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

  Mark Slouka

  Good Luck, Race, Luck

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• I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

  George Jones

  Cocaine

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.327, Dell

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• It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Cheer, Prayer

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

  Robert Jordan

  Pain, Pride, Men

  "A Crown of Swords". Book by Robert Jordan, 1996.

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• Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

  Bentley Little

  Hope, Men, Wife

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• Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.

  Pope Leo X

  Prayer, Judging, Vineyards

  "Exsurge Domine" by Pope Leo X, June 15, 1520.

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