Foolishness Quotes - Page 8

• It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

  Mark Slouka

  Good Luck, Race, Luck

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• One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Community, Levels, Conspiracy

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• Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Logic, Ridicule

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• Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mistake, Night, Attachment

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Touching the Earth: 46 Guided Meditations for Mindfulness Practice: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

  Thomas Tusser

  Money, Italian, Taxation

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• But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

  Umberto Eco

  Laughter, Weakness, Flesh

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.486, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ideas, Attention, May

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• Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

  Robert Jordan

  Pain, Pride, Men

  "A Crown of Swords". Book by Robert Jordan, 1996.

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• Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.

  Pope Leo X

  Prayer, Judging, Vineyards

  "Exsurge Domine" by Pope Leo X, June 15, 1520.

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• Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Dream, Bamboo

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing

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• Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

  Paul David Tripp

  Stupid, Ignorance, Pride

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• Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

  Piers Anthony

  Care, Foolish, Leaving Me

  Piers Anthony (2008). “With a Tangled Skein”, p.383, Del Rey

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• Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Fool, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.222

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• It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.

  Ashanti

  Sheep, Fool, Break

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• Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Respect, People, Pay

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• I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.

  Patti Davis

  Should Have, Careers, People

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• a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Daughter, Memories, Father

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2012). “Anne: A Novel”, p.129, The Floating Press

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• Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Twins, Twin Sister

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• In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Men, Media, Age

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• Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

  Bernard Lewis

  Giving, Islam, Democracy

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• Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

  Al Bernstein

  Jobs, Stupid, Done

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• I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

  George Jones

  Cocaine

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.327, Dell

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• It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Cheer, Prayer

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Wrestling, Hysteria

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• A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Doe, Fool, Pencils

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