Folly Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

— Mary Russell Mitford

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

— Horace

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.

— Jonathan Swift

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

— Michel de Montaigne

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

— Vincent Bugliosi

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

— Zhuangzi

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

— Quintilian

Sometimes its wise to be foolish.

— Dr Kurien S Thomas

“When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.”

— Aeschylus

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the…

— Charles Spurgeon