Quotes About Folly

How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly.

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.

All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong is done, a man can turn his back on folly, misfortune too, if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen, and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornness brands you for stupidity—pride is a crime.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Fate works most for woe With Folly's fairest show. Man's little pleasure is the spring of sorrow.

Think, then, on these things, my son. All men are liable to err; but when an error hath been made, that man is no longer witless or unblest who heals the ill into which he hath fallen, and remains not stubborn. Self-will, we know, incurs the charge of folly.

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

Hardin, Garrett, Filters Against Folly (New York: Penguin, 1985).

Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Caution is evil medicine to me, even when it seems to guarantee reward. It was a foretaste of my later conviction that the follies which a man regrets most are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

It is fortunate that youth never recognizes its ignorance, for if it did it would not find the courage to get the habit of endurance. It is perhaps an instinct of the blood and flesh which prevents this knowledge and allows the boy to become the man who will live to see the folly of his existence.

Ignorance is the greatest poverty. Ignorance is death in life. There is no evil so great as ignorance. Folly is an incurable disease. A

Works of romance, frivolous, exciting tales, are, in hardly less degree, a curse to the reader. The author may profess to teach a moral lesson; throughout his work he may interweave religious sentiments, but often these serve only to veil the folly and worthlessness beneath.

because a man is always a fool until he is made to realize the extent of his folly

Che umiliazione dover assistere all'estinzione dei nostri deliri! Dov'è il folle che ero?