more fool me
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
— William Shakespeare
We have to allow ourselves to realize that we are complete fools; otherwise, we have nowhere to begin. We have to be willing to be a fool and not always try to be a wise guy. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
“the spirit of the fool.” He argued that when you start learning anything new it will make you “feel clumsy, that you’ll take literal or figurative pratfalls. There’s no way around it.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
James Baldwin • Giovanni's Room
The Fool teaches us that we are always expressing our selves in the world, not a single Self.
Carol Pearson • Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
As the British philosopher Alain de Botton said, “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed by who they were twelve months ago isn’t learning enough.”
Benjamin Hardy • Personality Isn't Permanent
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