Best fool & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.”

Wells Persons Self Political Desire Stage Possibility Position Fool Scene Ambition Claims Madness Praise Critics Definitions Folly Criticize License Rivals Rivalry Reprisal Erasmus

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!”

Mean Self Dies Poor Pieces Fool Suicide Things To Do Heroism Slaughter Better Things To Do

Author:George Darley

“Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!”

Self Spirit Social Christianity Fool Cells One Time Alas Bigots Knaves

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.”

May Self Doubt Fool Hero Prove Obstacles Heroic Heroism Truest Greatest Obstacles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.”

People Self Worst Effects Fool Discipline Bounds Self Discipline Tutelage

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”

Knows May Self Wisdom Doubt Fool Ought Prove Obstacles Heroic Heroism Truest Greatest Obstacles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I'm not a fool and I won't be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the same time I don't presume the worst and I don't see people coming at me with negativity. Until they do.”

People Self Taken Worst Fool Negativity

Author:Michele Bachmann

“A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Sound Realizing Consciousness Practice Huge Wall Fool What If Sophisticated Foolishness Wrong Things Self Consciousness Erudite Beginning Writers

Author:Richard Bach

“If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.”

Ifs Self Wise Fool Blessed Wretched Complacency

Book:The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices

Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices

“So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.”

Doe Self Facts Dangerous Fool Satisfied Treated Aggressive Scoundrels

Book:Letters Papers from Prison

Source: Letters Papers from Prison

“Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.”

“Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to allow for the self-serving bias of everybody else because most people are not going to remove it all that successfully, the human condition being what it is. If you don't allow for self-serving bias in your conduct, again you're a fool.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.”

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.”

Ifs Want Self Desire Realizing Nice Fool Circumstances Anxiety Comfortable Rivers Crosses Caught Woods Where You Are Yogi Crocodiles Nice Life

Book:The Powers of The Mind

Source: The Powers of The Mind

“If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.”

Ifs Self Fool Serving Bias Self Serving

Author:Charlie Munger

“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.”

Self Feelings Laughing Risk Fool Reach Out Sentimental True Self Involvement Appearing Exposing

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”

“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”

Self Happiness Compassion Fool Pity Self Pity

Book:ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY

Source: ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY

“I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.”

“Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.”

Ifs Trying Art Self Would Be Lying Speak Fool Mouths Censorship Self Censorship Literary Art

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.”

Source: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”

Thinking Way Inspirational Different Self Feet Fool My Way Way Of Thinking

Author:Bob Dylan

“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”

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Author:Mortimer Adler

“The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.”

Self Fool Hindrance

Book:Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!”

Has Beens Self Fool Self Respect Interfere

Book:Bluebeard: A Novel

Source: Bluebeard: A Novel

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