#foolish

To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#foolish #impulse #impulsive #impulsiveness #life

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#french #remorse #respect #respect

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. ↗

— Robert Burns

#error #foolishness #perception #sense-of-self #perception

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. ↗

— Demosthenes

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#directive #foolishly #forms #freudian #i

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

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Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#finances #financial-planning #fool #foolish #hoarding

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly. ↗

— George Will

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