Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Tags: mankind foolishness
Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.
Tags: wisdom politics foolishness superstition
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
Alexandre DumasTags: foolishness fool learn lot
And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.
Angela CarterTags: money rich wealth poverty foolishness irony poor
Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)
Witold GombrowiczTags: wisdom stupidity foolishness
I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyTags: french foolishness respect remorse
If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
Laurell K. HamiltonTags: bravery foolishness
I think we were very foolish, you and I.
John SpeedTags: foolishness
Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If you understand what I mean."
Caz: "Yes."
R.B.: "It was very foolish of you to attack that vile Roknari galley-man."
Caz: "Yes."
R.B.: "And yet, I think, given the same circumstances you would do it again."
Caz: "Knowing what I know now...it would be harder. But I would hope... I would pray, Royse, that the gods would still lend me such foolishness in my need."
R.B: "What is this astonishing foolishness, that shines brighter than all my father's gold? Can you teach me to be such a fool, too, Caz?"
Caz: "Oh," "I'm sure of it.
Tags: kindness integrity foolishness
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.
Jeffery DeaverTags: truth belief psychology foolishness
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