Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. — William Hazlitt
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly… — Phillip Lopate
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all… — Izaak Walton
I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of… — Henry David Thoreau
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as… — Adam Hochschild
The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. — Robert Breault
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. — Ambrose Bierce
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another country, because they… — John Amos Comenius
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed,… — Henry Adams
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. — Josh Billings
Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others. — Baltasar Gracian
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. — Baltasar Gracian
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. — Charles Lamb
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. — Robert South
If others had not been foolish, we should be so. — William Blake
My dreams are all follies. — Taylor Caldwell
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot

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