Foolishness Quotes - Page 5

• We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

  Saint Augustine

  Serpent

  St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Church, Rooms

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Shapes, Speak, Metaphor

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• The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wise, Travel, Men

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Wisdom, Survival

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• People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.111

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• Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Society, Foolish, Young

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• The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

  Alistair Begg

  Powerful, Impact, Crosses

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• As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Denial, Height

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”, p.5, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Purpose, Chance

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• Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Ignorance, Self, Injustice

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• We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

  Louie Giglio

  Captivity, Want, Foolish

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• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5

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• One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wind, Abuse, Trying

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Men, Ties, Missing

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

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• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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• It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

  George Santayana

  Stupid, Ideas, Brain

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.392, 谷月社

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• The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  Paul Valery

  Truth, Honesty, Spring

  "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci". Book by Paul Valery, 1895.

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• Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Example, Add, Want

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fools Day

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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• So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?' 'Love,' he explained. She looked at him with eyes the blue of the sky. 'I hope you choke on it,' she said, flatly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Blue, Sky

  Neil Gaiman “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust #3”, Vertigo

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• I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

  Jane Austen

  Important, Situation, Awkwardness

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.489, Wordsworth Editions

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• Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

  George Horace Lorimer

  College, Fool, College Life

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• Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Humor, Use It Or Lose It

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