“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.” — John Adams 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
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice. — Dominique Pire Copy Share Image
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! — Walter Scott 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
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man… — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
As long as there will be homophobic, racist or simply bigoted parents, educators and writers, there will be discrimination, prejudice and other… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus.… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the… — Learned Hand 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
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image