Foolish Quotes - Page 37

• A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

  Confucius

  Wise, Heart, Men

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• A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Clever, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

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• True perfection seems imperfect,
  yet it is perfectly itself.
  True fullness seems empty,
  yet it is fully present.
  True straightness seems crooked.
  True wisdom seems foolish.
  True art seems artless.
  The Master allows things to happen.
  She shapes events as they come.
  She steps out of the way
  and lets the Tao speak for itself.

  Laozi

  Art, Perfection, Way

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• It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Thinking, Body

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• The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

  Heinrich Heine

  Night, Race, Rage

  Heinrich Heine, Hal Draper (1982). “The complete poems of Heinrich Heine: a modern English version”, Suhrkamp/Insel

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is no vestige of a doubt that when exhibited overseas they have a detrimental effect of immigration . . . Everything that can be done should be done, to encourage the circulation of screen pictures that demonstrate that snow scenes and dog-trains are but a minor phase in Canadian life.

  Charles Paul

  Dog, Snow, Doubt

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• Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people.

  J. Neil Schulman

  Gun, Rights, Government

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• Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

  Cher

  Becoming Great, Littles, Looks

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• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Choices, Conventional

  "Madonna Misses "Certain Things" About Being Married". OK! Magazine, January 12, 2012.

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• Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.

  Vivien Leigh

  Responsibility, Able, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After Titanic it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've always loved England, I've never felt the desire to leave it for any particular reason. And whilst I'm ambitious and care very much about what I do, I'm not competitive. I also don't want to act every day of my life. () So it was important to me after Titanic to just remind myself of why it was that I was acting in the first place, which is of course because I love it.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Important, Desire

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• I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

  Djuna Barnes

  Writing, Draws, I Can

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• Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.

  Ayya Khema

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Support Systems

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• I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

  Gloria Swanson

  Thinking, Years, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

  David Hackworth

  Military, Moving, Men

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• But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Simple, Rights

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• I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Cat, Pet, Emotion

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Upset

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• Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

  Walter Raleigh

  Vanity, Touching, Religion

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.563

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• Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

  Tryon Edwards

  Wisdom, Procrastination, Safety

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.298, Ravenio Books

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• Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Beautiful, Wise

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• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Thinking, Years, Black

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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• Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Running, Comfort, Doe

  "On Newspaper Publicity" (1902)

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• There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

  Hannah Arendt

  Wise, Thinking, Yield

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