Quotes About Folly

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

For at moments such is the blindness and folly, yet withal the redeeming glory of love.

Travel is a fools paradise.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Whenever man tries to become God, it is a tragedy.

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

They're us!They've repopulated the world, and now they've achieved the same state of idiocy they were in before, ready to blow themselves up all over again. Great, isn't it? That's the human race!

It's like a great mist of folly that covers the whole sky: and we shall never see to go by Frith's light any more. Oh, what will become of us? A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Faith cannot move mountains (though generations of children are solemnly told the contrary and believe it). But it is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. It leads people to believe in whatever it is so strongly that in extreme cases they are prepared to kill and to die for it without the need for further justification.

I had begun with the comforting conclusion that books are the tongue of divine wisdom, and had ended only with the thin hunch that all books are grand follies, destined forever to be misunderstood.

If stupid were fuel, we would never run out.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.