A Quote by Pete Dexter

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

Pete Dexter

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Foolish Looks More None Nothing Than Those Tradition

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Pete Dexter
American - Novelist
Born: July 22, 1943

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

Sun Tzu

There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

Catullus

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Herodotus

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.

Adolf Hitler

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

Eric Wareheim

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

Virginia Woolf

It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .

Blaise Pascal

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

Francis of Assisi

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

Ron Kovic

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

Criss Jami

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

Albert Einstein

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