Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

Robert A. Heinlein

Stichwörter: fear courage folly



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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Stichwörter: humor writing fools readership folly audiences



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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Stichwörter: wisdom folly preference



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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

Charles Dickens

Stichwörter: humor poetry soul mind folly frog ode



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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Stichwörter: pride folly



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Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

Stephen King

Stichwörter: imagination war destruction folly



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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Gautama Buddha

Stichwörter: passion hatred greed fire buddha folly shark snare torrent



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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Samuel Johnson

Stichwörter: wisdom reading understanding folly



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There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.

Joe Vigil

Stichwörter: wisdom wealth ambition greed running folly born-to-run christopher-mcdougall



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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Winston S. Churchill

Stichwörter: folly



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