#foolishness

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so. ↗

— John Donne

#foolishness #love #love

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#antagonistic #discernment #foolishness #insecure #insecurity

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way. ↗

— Angela Carter

#irony #money #poor #poverty #rich

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#foolishness #bravery

Don't fool yourself by look so humble whereas the thing you want is respect. ↗

— Toba Beta

#humble #respect #respect

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them. ↗

— Alfred Sutro

#always #else #foolishness #our #pay

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#foolishness #wisdom #experience

Compromise is a stalling between two fools. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#foolishness #fools #humor #humor

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#humanity #intelligence #intelligence

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools ↗

— Gene Brown

#intelligence #intelligence