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Quotes about Foolishness

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette
 
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wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom

e.e. cummings (1894 - 1962)
Source: E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962, Page: 291 (VII)
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life, if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

Okakura Kazuko
Source: The Book of Tea
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When a fool is silent, he too is counted among the wise.

Anon
Source: Yiddish Proverb
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A foolish man is always doing,
Yet much remains to be done.

Lao Tzu : Chinese philosopher & mystic, founder of Taoism
Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
Source: Tao Te Ching [Text Only], Page: 40
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We are great fools. "He has passed his life in idleness," we say. "I have done nothing today." What! Haven't you lived? That is not only the fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations. "Had I been put in a position to manage great affairs, I would have shown what I could do." Have you been able to think out and manage your life? You have performed the greatest work of all. In order to show and release her powers, Nature has no need of fortune; she shows herself equally on all levels, and behind a curtain as well as without one. To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, to rule, to lay up treasure, to build, are at most little appendices and props.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne : French essayist
Michel Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Source: Essays
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The man who claims never to have known fear is either a fool or a liar.

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Only a fool fights in a burning house.

Klingon proverb
Source: Kang, "Day of the Dove," written by Jerome Bixby, Star Trek, 1968
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"Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world"

Joseph Campbell : American mythologist, writer & philosopher
Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
 
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It began with the Wisdom of Foolishness, a commitment to remain fluid, receptive, in process, part of the Membrane of Things as I struck out on that spiritual Route 66, the Experience Trail, determined to follow it to the end. It began with yours truly spontaneously ceasing to be myself and becoming someone else, assuming in the blink of an “I” the role of a drifter, a rolling stone, a wayward mariner lone and visionary on the High Seas of Chance and Possibility.

Sol Luckman
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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 Arthur William Russell : British philosopher, mathematician & social reformer
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
 
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Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
 
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall...

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 5
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1
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rosencrantz: Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: Hamlet, Act IV, scene ii.
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So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.

William of Baskerville
Source: The Name of the Rose
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She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. The years like great black oxen tread the world And God the herdsman goads them on behind And I am broken by their passing feet.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: The Countess Cathleen, 1892, last lines
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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: Crossways, 1889. Down by the Salley Gardens
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I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: A Full Moon in March, 1935. A Prayer for Old Age
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The foolish and dead never change their opinions.

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It used to be, in days gone by, though now it sounds real funny, that all that foolish spending stopped, when one ran out of money.

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Inspiration: There is no man upon the earth, no foolish man or wise, No man of high or humble birth but somewhere in the skies Can find a star to lead him on if he will lift his eyes.

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Entrepreneurs don't give up easily. When they're successful, this is called "perseverance." Before they succeed, or if they fail, it's called "stubborn," "bullheaded," "arrogant," or "foolish."

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The foolish and the dead are the only ones who never change their opinion.

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To trust in the arm of flesh is foolishness; to suppose that we are self-sufficient is naive. This nation will survive and prosper only as God permits it to do so, and his permission rests upon our obedience to him and his gospel. He brought forth this nation. He gave us our liberty. He inspired our federal constitution. But it is for us to preserve these priceless blessings by our repentance and obedience to God. Our sins and haughty attitudes can only bring us sorrow.

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