Quotes About Folly

Yet however grotesque Stalinism may seem in retrospect, it also represented an heroic attempt to break the bonds of structural economic backwardness. And its failure stemmed as much from human frailty and folly and from the sheer weight of the problems bequeathed by the past, as from any moral flaws in the Stalinist vision.

For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning.

For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions.

A beguiling optimism is often the first step toward folly.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

His folly has not fellowBeneath the blue of dayThat gives to man or womanHis heart and soul away.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Fools go in throngs.

Learned fools are the greatest fools.

The world is in the hands of fools.

FOOLISHNESS IS NOT AN ABUSE BUT A QUALIFICATION. Pst Sam Onitiri

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

If it came to a fight with the Empire—Gandhi had smelt that possibility—he wanted Indians to hold the moral high ground, yielding which had been part of the folly of 1857.

For every grain of wit, there is a grain of folly. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something

Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.

The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.

Who are a little wise, the best fools be.

It would have been so much in accordance with the wisdom of life, which consists in putting out of sight all the reminders of our folly, of our weakness, of our mortality; all that makes against our efficiency — the memory of our failures, the hints of our undying fears, the bodies of our dead friends.

I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! these were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove men—men, I tell you. But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly. How insidious he could be, too, I was only to find out several months later and a thousand miles farther.