Folly Quote by John Webster Download Open image “For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.” — John Webster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Wisdom
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“We make desire, not truth, the real clue to what’s valuable. If we desire something, then it has value; if not, we despise and… — John Webster Copy Share Image
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. — John Webster Copy Share Image
“In company with Christians down through the ages, we read…every passage of Scripture…out of the fact that for us, the center of Scripture is… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Fellowship with God is what human beings are for. That is, we flourish as human beings if we live in free and joyful and… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me” — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though’t goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Why is it that we often go away from Scripture unmoved, unaffected, dull? In the end, it’s because we refuse to be schooled by… — John Webster Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
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… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! — Marie of Romania Copy Share Image
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
