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Tag Name "Foolishness" (227)

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The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?
Cornelia Funke
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Chinua Achebe
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Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.
Anuj
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise they are always self-satisfied.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free.
Lenore Terr
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Foolishness pours out of an open mouth.... but wisdom sneaks in through the ears.
Gail Z. Martin
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Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.
Rajneesh
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Right now we have obtained a human rebirth and have the opportunity to attain enlightenment through Dharma practice, so if we waste this precious opportunity in meaningless activities there is no greater loss and no greater foolishness.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
Witold Gombrowicz
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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
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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
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
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We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!
Louie Giglio
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers
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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.
Huey Newton
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel de Montaigne
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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
Jane Smiley
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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
Piers Anthony
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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
Voltaire
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In the foolishness lies the danger.
Omar Torrijos
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