A Quote by Alexander Pope

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
English - Poet
May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

Euripides

A believing man will be a zealous man. Faith makes a man zealous. Faith shows itself by zeal. Not by zeal for a party or a system or an opinion; but by zeal for Christ - zeal for His church - zeal for the carrying on of His work on earth.

Horatius Bonar

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

John Tillotson

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

Charles Darwin

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

Thomas Aquinas

False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.

Charles Tomlinson

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

Thomas a Kempis

I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try to have a conversation with you to ask why it offends you, and tell you why objective truth should not offend you because that's how the world works.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Larry Niven

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.

Tami Hoag

If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

John Piper

Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on.

Walter Smith

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.