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Tag Name "Foolishness" (227)

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To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
Euripides
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson
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All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
Paulo Coelho
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She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
Sophocles
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Charles Dickens
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...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.
Saint Augustine
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A fool and his money are soon partying.
Steven Wright
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All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know better. Most of the time I just want to shake some sense into the world.
Stephen Hunt
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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears its course lies wholly toward the future.
Epicurus
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Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
Bertrand Russell
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
Joseph Campbell
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Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.
Ray Comfort
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
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A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
Nancy Astor
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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
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Madame Roland
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel de Montaigne
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
Philip Sidney
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder
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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
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