foolishness

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
3be0613	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.	wisdom sharing foolishness knowledge teaching	Hermann Hesse
30ec31f	Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.	inspirational foolishness	Elbert Hubbard
14f8c3f	Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.	humor conformity law rule foolishness fool rules	Henry David Thoreau
add7fc0	If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.	foolishness	Laurell K. Hamilton
e43a518	She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.	truth foolishness psychology	Jeffery Deaver
b423fc4	We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.	educational jack-goldenberg foolishness foolish fool	Bob Marley
ae1912b	If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.	foolishness lot learn	Alexandre Dumas
07628cd	Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?	mankind futility stupidity humanity learning intelligence wisdom foolishness knowledge	H. Rider Haggard
13b213d	How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it	westmoreland foolishness sad	Judith McNaught
f577f2f	Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.	wisdom foolishness	Tom Robbins
4638676	Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.	youth foolishness	Agatha Christie
2ee15a7	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.	wisdom wall-street foolishness	John Kenneth Galbraith
bed81f0	Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.	folly foolishness regret guilt	Ian Fleming
b2db060	The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.	literature stupidity philosophy czech-literature foolishness questions novel	Milan Kundera
2c65515	For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness.	life change-your-life foolishness	Samuel Beckett
261aea1	None of them seemed to mind sliding around in the faeces and choking in the smoke. They were determined not to miss the opportunity of watching a foreigner make a fool of himself.	foreigner foolishness	Tahir Shah
80c88bb	Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.	wisdom humans-and-animals foolishness	Jim Butcher

3be0613

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.

wisdom sharing foolishness knowledge teaching

Hermann Hesse

30ec31f

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

inspirational foolishness

Elbert Hubbard

14f8c3f

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

humor conformity law rule foolishness fool rules

Henry David Thoreau

add7fc0

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

foolishness

Laurell K. Hamilton

e43a518

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

truth foolishness psychology

Jeffery Deaver

b423fc4

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

educational jack-goldenberg foolishness foolish fool

Bob Marley

ae1912b

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

foolishness lot learn

Alexandre Dumas

07628cd

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

mankind futility stupidity humanity learning intelligence wisdom foolishness knowledge

H. Rider Haggard

13b213d

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

westmoreland foolishness sad

Judith McNaught

f577f2f

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

wisdom foolishness

Tom Robbins

4638676

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

youth foolishness

Agatha Christie

2ee15a7

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.

wisdom wall-street foolishness

John Kenneth Galbraith

bed81f0

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

folly foolishness regret guilt

Ian Fleming

b2db060

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

literature stupidity philosophy czech-literature foolishness questions novel

Milan Kundera

2c65515

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness.

life change-your-life foolishness

Samuel Beckett

261aea1

None of them seemed to mind sliding around in the faeces and choking in the smoke. They were determined not to miss the opportunity of watching a foreigner make a fool of himself.

foreigner foolishness

Tahir Shah

80c88bb

Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.

wisdom humans-and-animals foolishness

Jim Butcher