Folly Quote by Bertrand Russell

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

— Bertrand Russell

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

— Stephen Vizinczey

The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people…

— Steve Earle

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

— Bertrand Russell

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

— Cato the Elder

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

— Cynthia Heimel

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

— George Horace Lorimer

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

— Anonymous

A fool and his money are soon partying.

— Steven Wright

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

— Oliver Goldsmith

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

— Charles Spurgeon

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”

— Anatole France