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It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
Sep 10, 2025
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
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.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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.
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
Two things have been bothering me for a long time. The first is the tendency of people in general - and that includes Christians - to "relativize" religion. Any religious belief is only "true for," so to speak - true for you or true for me or true for those people on the other side of the world. Second, I've been bothered by how poorly believers understand their own Story. They have bits and pieces, of course, but they're missing enough that they can easily become prey to ideas that sound spiritual, but end up being foolishness in the end.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
I have no time for babbling foolishness.” “Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.
Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man would endure hardship. Conversely, if a man endures hardships where a woodsman could be comfortable, it argues not his toughness, but his ignorance or foolishness, which is exactly the case with our blatant friend of the drawing-room reputation.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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.
The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.
It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.