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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
If we are to go forward, we must go back
and rediscover those precious values -
that all reality hinges on moral foundations
and that all reality has spiritual control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future,
and I empower my intent to
transform those visions into reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Every day is the perfect day to ask yourself
questions about your life goals,
and how you plan to address those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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