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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of 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.
There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time.
We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.
The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.
Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.
People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.
A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do
For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.
The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.
I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.
I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.
Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.
[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.
I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.
One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.
To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.
I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.
It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.
I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.
Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.
When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
