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“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― The Wicked King
― The Wicked King
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
― The Fry Chronicles
― The Fry Chronicles
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
― Marriage and Morals
― Marriage and Morals
“He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.”
― The Dragonbone Chair
― The Dragonbone Chair
“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
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“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.”
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“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”
― The Shockwave Rider
― The Shockwave Rider
“I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again.”
― Shadow and Bone
― Shadow and Bone
“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.”
― Bob Marley - Legend
― Bob Marley - Legend
“Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.”
― Graceling
― Graceling
“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.”
― Letters of Anton Chekhov
― Letters of Anton Chekhov
“You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.”
― Wintersmith
― Wintersmith
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
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“You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.”
― There Once Was A Boy
― There Once Was A Boy
“Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.”
― Graceling
― Graceling
“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”
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“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”
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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.”
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“I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become foolish.”
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“You know, in my opinion, being ridiculous is sometimes even a good thing, and better than that: we can forgive one another more quickly, and acquire humility more quickly; after all, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin directly from perfection! In order to achieve perfection, we must first of all fail to understand a great many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand very well.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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