Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. — Andre Norton Copy Share Image
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the… — Narayanananda Swami Copy Share Image
I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
