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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
by J. Robert Oppenheimer
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Related topics: Wisdom Self Happy Insight Attitude Positive Choice
Foolish Quotes and Sayings
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
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
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
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Man Quotes and Sayings
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
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