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Foolishness   /fˈulɪʃnəs/   Listen
noun
Foolishness  n.  
1.
The quality of being foolish.
2.
A foolish practice; an absurdity. " The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness."





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"Foolishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... strange if children were quite incapable of doing what is so plainly required of them. It is true that they can be taught to reach the extreme of foolishness in the insignificance of the details that they mention. But it is also true that a fair amount of wise guidance will lead them to exercise good judgment in their selection. In other words, thoroughness as a relative and qualitative ...
— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry
... Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are ...
— And Judas Iscariot - Together with other evangelistic addresses • J. Wilbur Chapman
... any of his talk seriously. He calls it 'starvation foolishness,' and says that Oliver will get over it as soon as he has a nice little bank account. Perhaps he will—he is only twenty-two, you know—but just now his head is full of all kinds of new ideas he picked up somewhere abroad. ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... think," he said, "you fellows have exhibited enough foolishness for one scene; it is about time for a change. I did not think you were capable of making such asses of yourselves. You were saying, Sheriff, before you entered into your extremely interesting conversation with ...
— From Wealth to Poverty • Austin Potter
... foolishness,' says Sam, as he scraped the mud out of his hair. 'Think of our goin' like that. We ought to have known better.' "'We knew better,' I says, 'but we had to ...
— Keeping up with Lizzie • Irving Bacheller


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