I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that… — Kevin Rahm Copy Share Image
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at… — Jane Brereton Copy Share Image
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but… — George Henry Boker Copy Share Image
How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
