Wisdom and foolishness

[jajdude]

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Does this belong in the quotes thread?

We have no idea what either are, exactly. Well, we can guess, certainly when it comes to foolishness at least. Those acts are much more common and recognizable. As for anything wise. who knows? It can seem or sound or look wise, but perhaps that is an undeserved compliment much of the time.

I only posted this because I like that quote. How foolish of me.

[osho]

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Does this belong in the quotes thread?

We have no idea what either are, exactly. Well, we can guess, certainly when it comes to foolishness at least. Those acts are much more common and recognizable. As for anything wise. who knows? It can seem or sound or look wise, but perhaps that is an undeserved compliment much of the time.

I only posted this because I like that quote. How foolish of me.


I have never found a better quote in fact and this is the best quote I have ever come upon and this is full of wisdom. If we weigh this quote and the rest of books we have read I find this weighing heavier.

Yes wisdom and foolishness are both relative terms. Who is the wiser the pauper or the king. The saver or the spender. The one who is so much concerned about the future or the one who loves for the present.

I often feel though my level of knowledge gets going higher with more numbers of books I read and more experiences I gather and on the other hand I feel I am burdening myself with more and more nonsensical prejudices and I try to be with all my tangible and intangible acquisitions I am remoting myself from my real self.

In act though I becomes socially so much egoistic and labeling what I know a wealth of knowledge and experience and on the other hand I feel it is a poverty of thought and I am distancing myself from the pleasure of knowing myself and feeling my real self or nature.

My rank, position and sanding in a society of highbrows, elites, and the kind is getting myself away from being what I am. I am unhappy about all these things and I am so much convinced the quote really matters in life

This will be my best quote for ever and ever and I never heard truth articulated more clearly.

[jajdude]

Glad I could help you out there osho. I just discovered this quote earlier. That Rochefoucauld guy was full of good ones, and I recalled his name from long ago when I used to read books of quotations. I'm getting old.

Check him out on google sometime.

[osho]

Glad I could help you out there osho. I just discovered this quote earlier. That Rochefoucauld guy was full of good ones, and I recalled his name from long ago when I used to read books of quotations. I'm getting old.

Check him out on google sometime.

I will be checking right away

[osho]

The other quote I have come upon from him is

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise

[osho]

Glad I could help you out there osho. I just discovered this quote earlier. That Rochefoucauld guy was full of good ones, and I recalled his name from long ago when I used to read books of quotations. I'm getting old.

Check him out on google sometime.

My friend I have now downloaded

Reflections;
or
Sentences and

Moral Maxims
By
Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac

from Project Gutenberg and I am really excited to read those maxims.

[jajdude]

He was wise. Has he helped?

[osho]

He was wise. Has he helped?

After reading a few maxims I felt I got reborn and now I am all the stupider. For every book has some nonsense and that simply drive us to absoluteness. In fact I hate assumptions and want some stuff that helps me unlearn my collected thoughts and images. I have forgotten to say rose rose

[jajdude]

Dear osho,

I have no idea what you are talking about. He was a wise guy. We can respect that. There are many others. It was just a quote. I wonder who you are and do you take medication. Honestly.

[osho]

Dear osho,

I have no idea what you are talking about. He was a wise guy. We can respect that. There are many others. It was just a quote. I wonder who you are and do you take medication. Honestly.

In fact you misunderstood me my friend. I mean this writer you have quoted has some wisdom to share with us and one of the striking things he shares with us is contrast. In fact every wisdom has an air of stupidity and I have read something like that in Taoism too and I have commented it in that context and you took it differently. I tried to speak in his diction. Did not he say Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise? I think now you understand my point.

[jajdude]

Osho my friend, it is not a worry. I did not mean that badly.

I mean to say many have said wise things, and so they have.