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Tag Name "Foolishness" (227)

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To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Euripides
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A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner
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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
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Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?
Linda Sue Park
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).
Frances Trollope
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the wisdom of this world, which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of by the foolishness of preaching.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho
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My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
Nikola Tesla
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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
Maurice Freehill
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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
Sophocles
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
Dick Cavett
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That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.
Brandon Sanderson
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There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
Elizabeth I
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For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
Confucius
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The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.
John Rosemond
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Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
Louis Pasteur
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Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.
G. Campbell Morgan
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Sophocles
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