#foolishness

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

#enough #few #few people #foolishness #knowledge

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#pride #change

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#foolishness #knowledge #sharing #teaching #wisdom

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#foolishness #youth #experience

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#conformity #fool #foolishness #law #rule

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#futility #shakespeare #shakespeare

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

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aspect #certain #first #foolishness #ideas

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concealed #discover #favor #foolishness #forsake

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. ↗

— William Osler

#become #foolishness #next #philosophies #tomorrow