Foolish Quotes - Page 6

• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

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  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Fun, World Suffering, People

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Wise, Men

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• We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Wise, People, May

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.21

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• To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Wise, Looks

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• As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Getting Older, Grows, Wiser

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• If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

  Ivan Panin

  Wise, Silence, Ifs

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• He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

  Alfred the Great

  Life, Education, Men

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• The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

  George Herbert

  Children, Father, Firsts

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.159

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• Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

  Bob Saget

  Wish, Sometimes, Realizing

  Twitter post from Oct 16, 2011

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• The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Self, Patient, Edited

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• Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Heaven, Entering

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• The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ridiculous, Folly

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.156

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• It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Past, Years, Judging

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.101, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Punishment, Faults

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.343

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• Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Love, Wise, Women

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• The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

  Chanakya

  Speaks Out, Political, Secret

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• American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

  Diane Ravitch

  Stupid, Past, Ideas

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• Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Wise, Wisdom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

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• Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2909, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Stay hungry, stay foolish.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Memorable

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Stupid, Water

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

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• A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

  Solomon

  Wise, Fathers Day, Mother

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