foolishness Quotes

“as happens in Wall Street all too often, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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“Take heed, I have often heard it said in a vulgar proverb, the wise may be instructed by a fool.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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“Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:foolishness travel

“When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, but creep in crannies when he hides his beams.”

― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

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“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool, and draw shame and misery upon a man's self?”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:freedom foolishness misery

“Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words — they stand no chance against his powers!”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

topic:foolishness weakness control

“You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:foolishness suffering

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