Wilma Mankiller Quotes

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

Wilma Mankiller

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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • May
  • Wife
  • Moment

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Blow

• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Nerd

• There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Fool

• A man who does not fool himself seldom cares much about fooling others. But the man who claims to have seen a ghost wants everybody else to believe in ghosts.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Believe
  • Fool

• Let the world call me a fool,But if things are right with me and you,That's all that matters.And I'll do anything you asked me to.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Fool

• The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Long
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Now if there's a smile on my face,It's only there tryin' to fool the public,But when it comes down to foolin' you;Now honey, that's quite a different subject.But don't let my glad expressionGive you the wrong impression.Really I'm sad.I'm sadder than sad.You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad.Like a clown I pretend to be glad.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Sad

• Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Long
  • Live
  • Strong

• There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Fool

• Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Waiting

• I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know thenI wish I could start this whole thing over againI'm not sayin' it's you could never be trueI just don't wanna know how it endsYou'd still have my heart in the palm of your handsI'd still look like a fool in front of your friendsYeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Heart
  • Wish
  • Fool

• He died and He went down to hell! You know not what you mean. Our rafters were of green fir. Also our beds were green. But out of the mouth of a fool, a fool, before the darkness fall, We tell you He is risen again, The Lord of Life is risen again, The boughs put forth their tender buds, and Love is Lord of all!

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Green

• You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Fool

• I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

  

  Joanna Southcott
  • God
  • Fool

• I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Work
  • Vision
  • Able

• Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Giving
  • Joy
  • Christian

• It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Decisions

• If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Fool
  • Able
  • Arguing