Folly Quotes

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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
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
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
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. — Abu Bakr
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
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
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
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
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -… — Annie Besant
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce
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
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. — Josh Billings
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. — William Blake
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. — William Blake
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. — Warren Buffett
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
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
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. — Miguel de Cervantes
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
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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