Foolishness Quotes - Page 15

• The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.

  Paul David Tripp

  Heart, Guarantees That, Evil

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• My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

  Ellen Goodman

  Father, Men, Use

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• The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

  Dean Koontz

  Affectionate, Mockery

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.66, Bantam

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• I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blood, Flesh, Helping

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Fool

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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• Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

  Robin Hobb

  Men, Goes On, May

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Mad Ship”, p.150, Spectra

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• We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Wise, Powerful, Distance

  "The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa".

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• I wrote [Valley of Violence] entirely with James Ransone in mind. I get such a joy out of watching his performance and seeing people watch this. He's so great. The bravado thing and the foolishness, he does them both so well. It's weird because he's so hateable in the movie, but in the end, you're also going, "I feel bad for him." That's hard to do. It's hard to do that to where you're like, "This guy's the worst, but I know why he's the worst, so it's a shame this is happening." That's the whole thing.

  Ti West

  People, Guy, Joy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet...what happens when we're children is engraved forever on our lives.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Sacrifice

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

  Brock Yates

  Book, Car, Racing

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• My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

  Tyler Perry

  Running, Attitude, Mistake

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• The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?

  Cornelia Funke

  Song, Mistake, Flower

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.285, Scholastic Inc.

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• Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

  Ezra Pound

  Fool, Spontaneous, Damn

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• The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

  Emma Curtis Hopkins

  Men, Spirit, Natural

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• Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

  Anuj

  Age, Madness, Forbidden

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• I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Stars, Philosophical

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.48, Chartwell

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• Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

  Leon Kass

  Country, Mean, Wish

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• To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

  Ernest Becker

  Fun, Men, Play

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• Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Wisdom, Prayer, Pride

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• 'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

  Socrates

  War, Fighting, Self

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• To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

  Euripides

  Sound, Fool, Speak

  "The Bacchae". Play by Euripides, 405 BCE.

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• You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

  Vinod Khosla

  Dream, Degrees, Needs

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• We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

  Louie Giglio

  Captivity, Sin, Forget

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• A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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