#foolish

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#foolish #men #men

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#foolishness #bravery

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run. ↗

— Mike Norton

#die #dig #digging #escape #evil

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 Deaver

#foolishness #psychology #truth #psychology

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better. ↗

— John Brunner

#foolish #wisdom #wisdom-quote

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. ↗

— Tori Amos

#give #i #ink #men #much

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#always #appear #appetite #centuries #even

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#believe #best #come #enough #foolish

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ↗

— Anatole France

#million #people #people say #say #still