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Folly Quotes by William Penn
- If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
- It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
- Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
More Folly Quotes
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — 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… — 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… — Bernard Baruch
- The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant… — Joseph Addison
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the… — Joseph Addison
- This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,… — 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… — Ambrose Bierce
- Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. — Josh Billings