Folly Quotes
717 quotes by 479 authors
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
— Isaac Asimov
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without…
— Mary Astell
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to…
— Teresa of Avila
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
— Abu Bakr
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
— John Quincy Adams
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of…
— Bernard Baruch
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
— Joseph Addison
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of…
— Joseph Addison
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -…
— Annie Besant
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
— Josh Billings
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
— William Blake
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
— William Blake
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
— Warren Buffett
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without…
— Edmund Burke
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
— Alcaeus
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so,…
— Winston Churchill
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