Foolishness Quotes - Page 10

• The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

  Kevin James

  Heart, Moon, Sea

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• Only few know what righteousness is. It is righteous to suffer for your own foolishness. When you sin, it is righteous to bear the consequences of your sin without complaining. Saying what you mean and what is on your heart when you deal with other people, that is righteous. One who hungers and thirsts for righteousness will be filled-and being filled with righteousness is something very great.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Heart, Mean

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• 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.

  Ben Jonson

  Wise, Men, May

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• Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

  Maurice Freehill

  Fear, Children, Dark

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• The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Mean

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• No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Life, Wisdom, Men

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• The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black 'Democrat,' a black 'Republican,' a black 'Conservative,' or a black 'Liberal' ...when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man's vote is almost always evenly divided.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, America

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.321, Ballantine Books

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• There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
  [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Two, Way

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

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• Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

  Paul Tillich

  Wisdom, Children, Men

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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

  Loss, Opportunity, Practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.25, Tharpa Publications US

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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

  War, Three, Looks

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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• Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

  Philip Sidney

  Vain, Profanity, Betray

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• The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life

  David Oyedepo

  Winning, Tickets

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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

  Fear, Angel, Fool

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.73

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• One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

  Kathleen Norris

  May, Fool, Bitter

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• Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.

  Okky Madasari

  Rights, Law, Names

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• Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Laughing, Littles

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• Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Men, Long Ago

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Comfort, Pushing, Push Yourself

  "Dove Award winning singer/songwriter Nichole Nordeman talks about life away from full-time music and writing songs for 'The Story'". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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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

  Wisdom, Fool, Should

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• The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.

  John Rosemond

  Heart, Free Will, Combination

  John Rosemond (2012). “A Family of Value”, p.210, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in the image of heaven. The gods can't do their work without us. So let's be bold, in their cause and in our own. It's our job, we humans, to make manifest that which is unmanifest-and to raise into consciousness, in this material dimension, that which had been known before only in heaven.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Heaven, May

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• Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

  William Penn

  Disappointment, Heaven, Faults

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.

  James Randi

  Believe, Survival, Quality

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