360 Quotes About Foolish

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

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.

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

Sometimes I just like to sit and ponder just sitting. For in the rarely visited expanse that this creates, I realize how much junk I’ve thought to be treasure and how much treasure I have junked.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

The ant… the foolish ant,sitting on the edge of an enormous discspinning about its axis, reckons at every instant of time,that it’s progressing forward.Who would hold a mirror up to it? And convey it the truth,Clearing out its fallacy,Clean as a hound’s tooth.The fallacy that it can seethe whole dimension in entirety.Shall it ever concede,If one tries to enlighten?Or, inured by canard shall it fightTo win against what is right?

It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.