To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in… — Zhuge Liang Copy Share Image
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart… — William Law Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly — Socrates Copy Share Image
Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image