#foolish

Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed. ↗

— Thomas Vernor Smith

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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. ↗

— Alexander Meiklejohn

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A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool. ↗

— Lord Mahāvīra

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The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own ↗

— Amit Abraham

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

— Paul David Tripp

#pride #change

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse. 
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— Jarod Kintz

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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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

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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