Foolish Quotes

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What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be… — Francis Crick
A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again. — Mark Twain
The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to… — Oscar Wilde
A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise manÂ´s wisdom even if he associates with a… — Dalai Lama
Don`t be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas… — Rajneesh
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults… — Rajneesh
Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires. — Rajneesh
If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the… — Martin Luther
It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it… — Kathryn Lindskoog
Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish. — Phyllis McGinley
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can… — Stephen Jay Gould
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one. — John Wilmot
The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just… — Mink Stole
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. — William Shakespeare
People, you see... are ruthless and foolish. When they're young, in order to have money and power, they give up everything like health and youth.… — Jae Hee
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. — William H. Seward
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones… — H. Bentley Glass
The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will -… — David Wilcock
That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor… — Mechthild of Magdeburg

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