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“The wisdom of God oft times appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when god speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.”
―Thomas S. Monson

Source/Notes:
Decisions BYU Devotional, February 6, 1977

“There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully.”
―François de La Rochefoucauld

Source/Notes:
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women — and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.”
―Osho

Source/Notes:
The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)

“Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.”
―Golda Meir

Source/Notes:
As quoted in Newsweek (23 October 1972)

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
―Charles Dickens

Source/Notes:
A Tale of Two Cities

“Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.”
―Orson Scott Card

Source/Notes:
Chapter 17 - The Tales of Alvin Maker

“It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.”
―Cormac McCarthy

Source/Notes:
All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.”
―Louis Pasteur

Source/Notes:
As quoted in The Literary Digest (18 October 1902)

“A physical man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know, because they are examined spiritually. However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man.”
―Paul of Tarsus

Source/Notes:
1 Corinthians 2:14,15

“The foolishness of the great and the wealthy is an excellent source of revenue for the humble.”
―Antoine François Prévost

Source/Notes:
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)

“We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.”
―Benjamin Franklin

“The world is passing through troubling times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress.”
―Peter the Hermit

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