Foolishness Quotes - Page 10

• I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Comfort, Pushing, Push Yourself

  "Dove Award winning singer/songwriter Nichole Nordeman talks about life away from full-time music and writing songs for 'The Story'". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

  William Penn

  Disappointment, Heaven, Faults

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• The wise are wise only because they love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wise, Foolish Man

  "Elders on Love: Dialogues on the Consciousness, Cultivation, and Expression of Love". Book by Kenneth R. Lakritz and Thomas M. Knoblauch, 1999.

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• The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

  Voltaire

  Religion, Firsts, Fool

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

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• Only few know what righteousness is. It is righteous to suffer for your own foolishness. When you sin, it is righteous to bear the consequences of your sin without complaining. Saying what you mean and what is on your heart when you deal with other people, that is righteous. One who hungers and thirsts for righteousness will be filled-and being filled with righteousness is something very great.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Heart, Mean

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• Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Angel, Fool

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.73

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

  Confucius

  Wise, Heart, Men

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• Foolishness pours out of an open mouth....
  but wisdom sneaks in through the ears.

  Gail Z. Martin

  Sneak In, Ears, Mouths

  Gail Z. Martin (2012). “The Dread: The Fallen Kings Cycle: Book Two”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Stupid, Fire

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.349, Macmillan

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• Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

  Benito Mussolini

  Beautiful, Men, Talking

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• No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

  Ben Jonson

  Wise, Men, May

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• Right now we have obtained a human rebirth and have the opportunity to attain enlightenment through Dharma practice, so if we waste this precious opportunity in meaningless activities there is no greater loss and no greater foolishness.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Loss, Opportunity, Practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.25, Tharpa Publications US

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• Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.

  Okky Madasari

  Rights, Law, Names

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• I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.

  Robert Winston

  Cancer, Thinking, Years

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• There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
  [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Two, Way

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

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• The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.

  John Rosemond

  Heart, Free Will, Combination

  John Rosemond (2012). “A Family of Value”, p.210, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

  Paul Eldridge

  Men, Creative, Foolish

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• What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

  John Piper

  Christ On The Cross, World, Boast

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• You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in the image of heaven. The gods can't do their work without us. So let's be bold, in their cause and in our own. It's our job, we humans, to make manifest that which is unmanifest-and to raise into consciousness, in this material dimension, that which had been known before only in heaven.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Heaven, May

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• The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life

  David Oyedepo

  Winning, Tickets

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• Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

  Philip Sidney

  Vain, Profanity, Betray

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• I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.

  James Randi

  Believe, Survival, Quality

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