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41 " How arrogant you areTo think your wretched Self so singular!The disappointments of this world will dieIn less time than the blinking of an eye,And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth;What empty foolishness it is to careFor what must one day be dispersed to air! "
― عطار نیشابوری
42 " Look here, cousin,” Big Country’s drawled in the background. “This here’s a car. We just got off a plane, and no matter how fast you push this bitch, she ain’t gon’ fly, so believe me when I say, I refuse to die over some foolishness you call love, not today. "
― , On the Edge of Love (Mama's Brood, #1)
43 " Imagine God and Man set down together to play that game of chess that we call life. The one player is a master, the other a bungling amateur, so the outcome of the game cannot be in question. The amateur has free will, he does what he pleases, for it was he who chose to set up his will against that of the master in the first place; he throws the whole board into confusion time and again and by his foolishness delays the orderly ending of it all for countless generations, but every stupid move of his is dealt with by a masterly counterstroke, and slowly but inexorably the game sweeps on to the master's victory. But, mind you, the game could not move on at all without the full complement of pieces; Kings, Queens, Bishops, Knights, Pawns; the master does not lose sight of a single one of them. "
― Elizabeth Goudge
44 " When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity. "
― Ogwo David Emenike
45 " People think the Bible is too complicated for the average person to understand. People tend to be wrong. It's too complicated for the unsaved person, yes, it's foolishness to him. But for those who are in Christ, it's a magnificent journey of simplicity. Depth, richness, but simplicity. It's the fact that the natural man can't believe that life with Christ is so simple that cause the great " complexity" argument. Stop, take a breath, and believe that it's as simple as it appears. "
46 " Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this system of things? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not get to know God through its wisdom, God was pleased through the foolishness of what is preached to save those believing. ~ 1Corinthians 1:20,21 "
47 " Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. "
― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
48 " Now, what’s stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history. "
― Laurie Perez , The Look of Amie Martine (The Amie Series, #1)
49 " In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties. "
― Milan Kundera
50 " It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change. "
― Cormac McCarthy
51 " The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces. "
― Hayley Solich
52 " The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination. "
― Murad S. Shah
53 " Its foolishness to claim that one is faithful towards God, when one is habitual of breaking the trust of those who love and respect him. "
― Santosh Thankachan
54 " Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination. "
― Valerie Martin , A Recent Martyr
55 " I tell you, Professor, growing up is a full contact sport. Somewhere in our brains, foolishness and naïveté join forces with a false sense of invincibility. Together, they score own-goals against their host’s interests. All this happens while that referee known as ‘reason’ is collapsed in a drunken stupor, unable to stop the madness. When he finally wakes up, all he can do is grant the useless penalty known as ‘hindsight’. But the outcome remains unchanged. The game is lost … "
― Taona Dumisani Chiveneko , The Hangman's Replacement: Sprout of Disruption
56 " Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. "
― John Piper , Don't Waste Your Life
57 " Don’t ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
58 " The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea. "
― Kevin James Moore , The Go-Go Girl
59 " Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master. "
― Mark O'Connell , Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever
60 " ShanTu said that we must set the soul free from the body and its lusts. Having thus got rid of the foolishness of the flesh, we shall be pure. While an admirable goal, the sisterhood has not found this practical. For whatever purpose, body and soul are joined. Denying one's bodily lusts is about as effective as prohibition, which is to say not effective at all. "
