Quotes with foolishness

  • People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
  • We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

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  • Seneca A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ben Carson But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • George Bernard Shaw First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jean Baudrillard In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Horace Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Brock Yates More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
    Brock Yates
    American journalist and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Alice Walker People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Abraham Cowley Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Golda Meir Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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