#foolishness

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ↗

— Alice Walker

#appear #appearance #avoid #foolish #foolishness

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. ↗

— Sidney Hook

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. ↗

— Horace

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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concealed #discover #favor #foolishness #forsake

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works. ↗

— Brock Yates

#books #cars #foolishness #more #motorcycles

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. ↗

— John McCarthy

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