Foolishness Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dumb, Luck, World

  Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear (2014). “Lovecraft's Monsters”, p.21, Tachyon Publications

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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 a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.

  Ashanti

  Sheep, Fool, Break

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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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• Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Twins, Twin Sister

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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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• 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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• 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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• One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

  Richard Whately

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.416

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• Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Giving Up, Effort, Secret

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

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Doe, Fool, Pencils

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

  Paul David Tripp

  Stupid, Ignorance, Pride

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

  Mark Slouka

  Good Luck, Race, Luck

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Mean

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