Foolishness Quotes - Page 6

• We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

  Hugh Leonard

  Kindness, Hate, Thinking

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• The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

  Larry Niven

  Fool, Protect, Capable

  "Ringworld" by Larry Niven, Del Rey Mass Market Paperback, (p. 96), 1970.

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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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• A fool and his words are soon parted.

  William Shenstone

  Witty, Fool

  'Essays on Men, Manners, and Things' 'On Reserve' in 'Works in Verse and Prose' (1764) vol. 2

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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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• 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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• We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. 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

  Country, Religious, Civilization

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• People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

  Agnes Repplier

  Civilization, People, Way

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

  George Santayana

  Way, World, Earth

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.310, Indiana University Press

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• There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists... Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness... Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

  Michio Kaku

  Honesty, Example, Yeoman

  "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension". Book by Michio Kaku, March 24, 1994.

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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 fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

  William Blake

  Wise, Photography, Teaching

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Talking, Office

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• Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Sarcasm, Fool

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 5

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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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• Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.

  Jalen Rose

  Lying, Merit, Matter

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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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• He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

  Christopher Paolini

  Acting, Littles, Foolish

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance: Book Four”, p.196, Random House

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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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• He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Missing, Path

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.241, The Overlook Press

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• Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. 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

  Christian, Easter, Pain

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• In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Blood, Knowing

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Wise

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• A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

  Wilson Mizner

  Fool, Suspicion, Declaring

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