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Tag Name "Foolishness" (227)

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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and 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.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca the Younger
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In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
Jean Baudrillard
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[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.
Arthur Eddington
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It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
Homer
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson
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More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.
Muhammad
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
John Donne
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To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!
Jose Rizal
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Brock Yates
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
Arthur Helps
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That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
Alfred Sutro
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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
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost
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It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
Albert Camus
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What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
John Piper
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
Baron de Montesquieu
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Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.
Melina Marchetta
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The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.
Emma Curtis Hopkins
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I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.
Patti Davis
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler
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