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Tag Name "Foolishness" (227)

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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
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
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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
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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
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
William Arthur Ward
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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
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
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I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.
William Butler Yeats
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Al Bernstein
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But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.
Umberto Eco
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It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.
Winston Churchill
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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
Afrika Bambaataa
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Don't cry over spilt milk.
Aesop
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley
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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir
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None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.
George Herbert
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Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
Paul Tillich
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