Foolishness Quotes
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
William Shenstone -
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
Gautama Buddha
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Rescuing people from the results of their own foolishness is really what customers service is all about. Customers rarely obey the rules. They expect you to rescue them whenever they do something stupid. Will you be a “rescuer,” known far and wide for customer service, or will you steadfastly insist that your customers follow the proper procedures?
Roy H. Williams -
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
Al-Ghazali -
To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
Euripides -
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
Vinod Khosla -
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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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
George Bernard Shaw -
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Charles Dickens -
The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life
David Oyedepo -
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
Hermann Hesse -
A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness.
Chenjerai Hove -
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 -
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace -
The past, she knew, is inviolable, one of the few things in life that cannot be marred by present foolishness, and in it the present may find its peace.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
Bentley Little -
There's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
George Horace Lorimer -
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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Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.
Ray Comfort -
But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
Benjamin Carson -
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.
Marcel Proust -
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Sidney Hook