#foolish

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#foolish #haunt #memory #our #refuge

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#always #another #anything #damned #foolish

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. ↗

— John Ruskin

#exchanging #foolish #give #laborers #live

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

#attitude #fact #fate #fool #foolish

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#foolishness #knowledge #sharing #teaching #wisdom

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

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. ↗

— Robert Burns

#error #foolishness #perception #sense-of-self #perception

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ↗

— Confucius

#other-people #journey