Foolish Quotes - Page 35

• My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

  Isaac Asimov

  Creativity, Ideas, Feelings

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• It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, among many other things, the mistaken animal, the foolish animal. Other species doubtless have much more limited ideas about the world, but what ideas they do have are much less likely to be wrong and are never foolish. White cats do not denigrate black, and dogs do not ask Baal, Jehovah, or other Semitic gods to perform miracles for them.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Dog, Cat, Men

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• It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

  Upton Sinclair

  Real, Evidence, Refuse

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• Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.

  Manly Hall

  Wise, Lonely, Stars

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• It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Waiting, Ships

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• Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Prayer, Essence

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

  John Tukey

  Different, Asking, World

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• The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

  Swami Muktananda

  Self, Distinction, Subjects

  Swami Muktananda (2000). “Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography”, Siddha Yoga Publication

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• We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

  Richard Flanagan

  Country, Progress, Moral

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• We are foolish to expect to serve God without opposition: the more zealous we are, the more sure are we to be assailed... Glory be to God, we know the end of the war. The great dragon shall be cast out and for ever destroyed, while Jesus and they who are with him shall receive the crown. Let us sharpen our swords to-night, and pray the Holy Spirit to nerve our arms for the conflict. Never battle so important, never crown so glorious. Every man to his post, ye warriors of the cross, and may the Lord tread Satan under your feet shortly!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, War, Night

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• If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead of the care of persons, is foolish.

  Tony Campolo

  Intimate Relationships, Giving, Care

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• Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left, and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.

  J.R. Miller

  Selfish, Dope, Thinking

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• The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.

  Edmund A. Opitz

  Exercise, Men, Choices

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• Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

  Edward Gibbon

  Suicide, Hands, Flattery

  Edward Gibbon (1787). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire”, p.401

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• A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

  Charlie Munger

  Organization, Way, Life Is

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• 'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.

  Charlie Munger

  Men, Thinking, Practice

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are valued partly like bonds, based on roughly rational projections of use value in producing future cash. But they are also valued partly like Rembrandt paintings, purchased mostly because their prices have gone up, so far.

  Charlie Munger

  Gone, Excess, Use

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• The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Men, Foolish Man

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• If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Causes, Ifs

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• Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

  Louise Penny

  People, Stupidity, Greed

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• There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Self, Doctrine

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• To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Rocks, House

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2014

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• He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Father, World, Satisfaction

  "Fables". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, III. 1, 1668 - 1679.

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• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

  Thomas Tusser

  Money, Italian, Taxation

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• The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.

  Edwin Arnold

  Wise, Eye, Men

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.80, Routledge

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