Folly Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been far better…

— Haruki Murakami

“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information…

— Paulette Jiles

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his…

— Thomas Steinbeck

“He wasn't the least bit disturbed that his intuition was wrong: intuition often missed, sometimes spectacularly, but when it connected it saved so much…

— Jim Dodge

He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to…

— Haruki Murakami

“His thinking was a dusk of doubt and selfmistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a…

— James Joyce

“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle:…

— Haruki Murakami

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else…

— Charles Dickens

“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every…

— Lawrence Durrell