Foolish Quotes - Page 30

• Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

  Chanakya

  Grief, Giving, Wife

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• Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, People, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.28, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Mistake, Believe, Intelligent

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• Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Silence, Possibility, Save Me

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

  Black Elk

  Two, Vision, Would Be

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• I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Chance, Accomplished

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  I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

  William Golding

  Strong Women, Thinking, Novelists

  YouTube Chanel "AbecedariusRex"/ "Golding's Introduction to Lord of the Flies", www.youtube.com. May 22, 2010.

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• We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.

  Oswald Chambers

  Divine Guidance, People, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

  Charles Spurgeon

  Remember, Gentle, Ought

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 44: Sermons 2549-2602”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

  Epictetus

  Grief, Animal, Men

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Graves they say are warm'd by glory;
  Foolish words and empty story.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stories, Glory, Empty

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.787, Delphi Classics

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• All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Ridiculous, Strange

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

  Erica Jong

  Fear, Future, Humankind

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• The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

  Agnes Repplier

  Past, Subtle, Delusion

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• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

  John Ruskin

  Sex, Equality, Giving

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

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• The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

  Kabir

  White, Waste, Soap

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• Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Play, People

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.161

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• the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Wind, Trying

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.3, Vintage

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• I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Wife, Ignorant

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• I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

  Denis Diderot

  Silence, Important, Matter

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• I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.

  Jim Parsons

  Bigs, Feels, Universe

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wise, Fashion, Often Is

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• How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

  Marie Corelli

  Men, Confusion, Would Be

  Marie Corelli (2015). “Thelma: A Norwegian Princess”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Wings, Anxiety

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• Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Nature, Animal, Men

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