The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness. — John G. Lake
Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things — Miyamoto Musashi
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. — William Golding
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. — Blaise Pascal
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. — Chinua Achebe
Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own? — Sitting Bull
My Foolishness Quotes
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory. — Louis Pasteur
Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse. — Peter Murphy
But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart — Robert Hunter
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Foolish heart, hear me calling. Stop before you start falling. Foolish heart, heed my warning; you've been wrong before. Don't be wrong anymore. — Steve Perry
And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart. — Fred Astaire
I cannot allow such a fool to make his fortune by destroying my poor name. — Antonio Vivaldi
Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then Kisten —until I had pinned him in an elevator in a foolish moment of vampire-induced passion. It's hard to be scared of someone after you've French-kissed him. — Kim Harrison
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others. — Vinod Khosla
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God. — Clement of Alexandria
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom. — R.K. Narayan
Weak people revenge, strong people forgive, intelligent people ignore.
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. — Timothy Zahn
Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it. — Neil Postman
Having complete control but not a clue what you’re doing is a recipe for disaster. — Paul Jarvis
[Terrorism] is formed of certain fundamental problems, [including] ignorance, poverty, and fear of others. Some people take advantage of the young and foolish. They are manipulated, abused, and even drugged to such an extent that they can be used as murderers on the pretext of some crazy ideals or goals. — Fethullah Gulen
There are no shortcuts. Be patient and look long-term. It's a foolish idea that if you do a little more, faster, then you'll get better than the rest. It ignores the fact that you must train at your optimal level, not your maximum level. Consistency is the secret to improvement and success. You have to keep training when others lose interest. — Robert de Castella
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example. — Don Meyer
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. — Moli
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard. — Kahlil Gibran
This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects. — George Ripley
Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money. — Alan Cohen
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. — Jean De La Bruyere
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? — Leslie Stephen
Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. — Paul David Tripp
When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance. — Zicheng Hong
Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected... a passion for distinction. — John Adams
[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray. — Nat Hentoff
I guess I'm a Luddite. — Michael Eric Dyson
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
. . . they confuse everything I do with my life. — Woody Allen
To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore. — Kevin DeYoung
We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong. — Richard P. Feynman
Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor. — Sophocles
The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. — Petronius
In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest. — George S. Patton
I guess I've been naive my entire life. — Mike Royer
Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally. — Anuj
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge. — Honore de Balzac
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant. — Michel de Montaigne
Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe. — George Herbert
We are fooles one to another. — George Herbert
In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year. — Jean Bodin
Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them? — Carrie Jones
Fear is the beginning of wisdom. — Eugenie de Guerin
Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural." — Stephen Fry
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