Quotes with foolish

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  • Louise Erdrich To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Anatole France What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jeremy Taylor What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Alec Guinness Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Jane Austen Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Fuller Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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