Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. — Henry Fielding
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy… — William James
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger… — John Stuart Mill
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness… — Thucydides
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do… — John F. Kennedy
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow marginâ€¦ I would have made a good one if I hadnâ€™t… — Robert A. Heinlein
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. — Edward Bellamy
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was… — Philip Pullman
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.… — Emile M. Cioran
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey… — Samuel Johnson
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But… — Samuel Johnson
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! — William Shakespeare
This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the… — William Shakespeare
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love… — William Shakespeare
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. — William Shakespeare
I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly. — Isaac Newton
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. — William Shakespeare
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. — William Shakespeare

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