Foolish Quotes

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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. — Thomas Carlyle
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be… — Confucius
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. — Miguel de Cervantes
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical… — Albert Einstein
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living. — Finley Peter Dunne
Never let me hear that foolish word again. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
ThereÂ’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that… — George Horace Lorimer
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. — Jean de La Fontaine
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes… — Edwin Arnold
Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. — Wallace Stevens
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is… — Edmund Burke
Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her… — Joseph Hall
Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad;… — Sam Walter Foss
The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different… — Neil Postman
A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth… — Richard Mitchell
I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done… — Leopold Stokowski
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But… — David Hume

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