Quotes About Folly

Where ignorance is bliss…" " 'Tis folly to be wise.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

Notwendig man viel Narren findet, Denn viel sind an sich selbst erblindet, Die mit Gewalt wollen weise sein, Da jedermann mit klarem Schein Wohl ihre Narrheit sieht.

Love is merely madness.

I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge. I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place, and had longed to enter the world, and take my station among other human beings. Now my desires were compiled with, and it would, indeed, have been folly to repent.

And if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism.

It Begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics defines the ultimate purpose of life, mind, and human striving: to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order. An underappreciation of the inherent tendency toward disorder, and a failure to appreciate the precious niches of order we carve out, are a major source of human folly.

It begins with skepticism.147 The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. One therefore ought to seek good reasons for believing something.

It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that can mean only one thing - I loved her truly, madly, deeply!

Love is merely a madness.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Evil is a form of idiocy. Kindness is a form of intelligence.

We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

The man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

I consider it poor historical form to make fun of ancestral mistakes without respecting the eros that was linked to them. We are no less in bondage to the Zeitgeist; folly is handed down, we merely don a new cap.