Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical… — Bertrand Russell
[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. — Desiderius Erasmus
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world. — Moliere
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because.… — John Charles Polanyi
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. — Richard Dawkins
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which… — William Hazlitt
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we… — Leo Rosten
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought… — Zhuangzi
Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under… — George S. Patton
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when… — Shirley Hazzard
Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure. — Bonaventure
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my… — George Bernard Shaw
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have… — Mark Twain
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple… — H. L. Mencken
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. — Sir John Davies
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and… — George Bernard Shaw

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