Quotes Tagged "foolishness"

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

Sometimes it is wise to be foolish and it takes wisdom to know when and for how long before returning to wisdom.

Questions are never foolish. Stupider are those who never ask anything.

Ọgbọ́n n o'logbon, Ọpọlọ n ọ'lọpọlọ́. Just ask for Grace.

And the insanity of it all is that I’m racing through life, attempting at every step to create the very things that I’m stepping on in the racing.

If I am unwilling to step up and look beyond the stunted reach of my own agendas, if I am unwilling embrace the truth even though it may run frustratingly contrary to my most innate desires, if I am unwilling to respect my fellowman even though our disagreements may be irritatingly vast...if I am so lifelessly entrenched in the bane of my own immaturity that I am ignorantly unwilling to do these things and rather choose to play the fool dressed in the garb of wisdom and other such assorted notions, 'common sense' will always be a phrase but never a standard.

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

May foolishness extinct itself after her, followed by honesty, integrity, kindness, hope, love and all its poisonous derivatives that plagued those that treasured them.

Sometimes when you think your kindness may be foolish ask yourself “would the world not be a better place if there were more fools like me?

On Religion – Oxymoron – definition: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness) broadly: something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements Christian Scientist – definition: Orthodoxy moron

Without exaggerating the point, the difference between ‘what I should do’ verses ‘what I want to do’ is quite frankly the difference between success and failure.

Will it take the death of me to finally learn that the things that I describe as success may very well be the death of me?

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

We equate wisdom with intelligence, which is about the same as equating a can opener with a can. If you don’t apply the first to the second, neither of them matter.

I don't know everything. No one does, and only the foolish seek to.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.