Foolishness Quotes - Page 9

• If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Disappointment, Hands, Hopelessness

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• Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

  Louis Pasteur

  Laughing, One Day, Philosopher

  "The Literary Digest" Magazine, October 18, 1902.

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• I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must be constantly monitored and are always the first suspects when anything goes wrong, everyone expects girls to do what they're told. It may seem a little insulting at first, but low expectations can be a blessing in disuise. If you're smart, you can use people's foolishness to your own advantage. It's amazing what you can get away with when no one bothers watching.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Smart, Blessing

  Kirsten Miller (2007). “Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City”, Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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• A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Errors

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• No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Giving, Car

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Vanity, People, World

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• And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.

  Sigrid Undset

  Christmas, Stars, Ocean

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• [He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Wrestling, Hysteria

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• That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Greatness

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.181, Macmillan

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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

  Respect, People, Pay

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• Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Men

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.911, Wordsworth Editions

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• Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

  Linda Sue Park

  Pride, Companion

  Linda Sue Park (2002). “A single shard”

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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

  Christian, Wise, Men

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• The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

  John Dryden

  Stupid, Eye, People

  John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works”, p.464

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• Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mistake, Night, Attachment

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Touching the Earth: 46 Guided Meditations for Mindfulness Practice: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Power, Men, Intellectual

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• I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.

  Robert Winston

  Cancer, Thinking, Years

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• I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Hate, Order

  "The Devil and the Good Lord" by Jean-Paul Sartre, (Act 11, sc. 2), 1951.

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• Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The wise are wise only because they love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wise, Foolish Man

  "Elders on Love: Dialogues on the Consciousness, Cultivation, and Expression of Love". Book by Kenneth R. Lakritz and Thomas M. Knoblauch, 1999.

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• To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe stupidly, or to rely only on people, textbooks, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism.

  Buddhadasa

  Buddhist, Believe, Buddhism

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• Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

  Benito Mussolini

  Beautiful, Men, Talking

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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

  Christ On The Cross, World, Boast

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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