Folly Quote by Joseph Priestley Download Open image “The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.” — Joseph Priestley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Generation Generation Folly Generations Next Wisdom Wisdom Generation
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The lack of wisdom in our present society poses a critical threat to the quality of our lives. A substantial disconnect exists in our… — Rick Rigsby Copy Share Image
When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“The result is that the same generation is in danger of growing up with 170 terabytes of knowledge and information, but not more than… — Sachin Kalbag Copy Share Image
“The advance of human technology is cummulative, but human wisdom dies with each generation.” — Daniel R. Cobb Copy Share Image
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. [G. W. Richmann died… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works,… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes. — Joseph Priestley 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
“Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.” — Proverbs 16:22 Bible KJV 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
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