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Quotes About Foolishness

If there is beauty, there must be ugliness; If there is right, there must be wrong. Wisdom and ignorance are complementary, And illusion and enlightenment cannot be separated. This is an old truth, don't think it was discovered recently. "I want this, I want that" Is nothing but foolishness. I'll tell you a secret - "All things are impermanent!
~ Ryokan
The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people must not expect to be treated with honour; and if a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for a common stone will break a jewel.
~ Saadi Shirazi
Do?rusu, dünyada rahat ya?amak için aptal olmak laz?m. Fakat aptal olmaktansa biraz daha rahats?z ya?amak daha iyidir bence…
~ Sabahattin Ali
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
~ Sacha Guitry
Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.
~ Sadhguru
What is the biggest wonder of life?' Without hesitation, Yudhishthira famously answers, 'Hundreds and thousands of living beings meet death at every moment, yet the foolish man thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the biggest wonder of life.
~ Sadhguru
Hundreds and thousands of living beings meet death at every moment, yet the foolish man thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the biggest wonder of life.
~ Sadhguru
Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children
~ Malcolm X
Todos los hombres pueden caer en un error; pero sólo los necios perseveran en él
~ Marco Tulio Cicerón
17. To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so.
~ Marcus Aurelius
13. The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs.
~ Marcus Aurelius
17. El perseguir imposibles es locura. Y es imposible que los malvados no cometan tales acciones.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs.
~ Marcus Aurelius
For to continue such as hitherto thou hast been, to undergo those distractions and distempers as thou must needs for such a life as hitherto thou hast lived, is the part of one that is very foolish, and is overfond of his life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Zoals de dwaasheid nooit tevreden is, zelfs niet als haar wensen worden vervuld, zo is de wijsheid steeds tevreden met wat voorhanden is, en heeft nooit onvrede met zichzelf.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
~ Mardy Grothe
Also, if a man takes pride in his disguise skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.
~ Margaret Atwood
Only fools, he said, were given to bragging about how much they could drink.
~ Margaret Atwood
Ah the Eternal Stupid Woman! How we enjoy hearing about her: as she listens to the con-artist yarns of the plausible snake, and ends up eating the free sample of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge: thus giving birth to Theology; or as she opens the tricky gift box containing all human evils, but is stupid enough to believe that Hope will be some kind of a solace.
~ Margaret Atwood
If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?
~ Margaret Mitchell
seesth thou a man tha isn't GRATEFUL? He is a GREAT FOOL
~ Pastor Erukeoghene Taunu PET
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.
~ Rick Riordan