Quotes About Folly

Why resurrect it all now. From the Past. History, the old wound. The past emotions all over again. To confess to relive the same folly. To name it now so as not to repeat history in oblivion. To extract each fragment by each fragment from the word from the image another word another image the reply that will not repeat history in oblivion.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

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

He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists… His respectability was spontaneous and sudden, a rebellion against rebellion.

More than anything I am afraid of fear itself overwhelming me. One must use any bit of folly to control it.

Poor Catullus, you should cease your folly.

I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to hi world, because he knew about war and folly. I think that he loved greatly, because he had seen what lost love is. And I think he came to know, too, that he was loved greatly." She looked at the strawberry in her hands. "But I thought you didn't want me to tell you your future.

So you think Don Pedro ended up all right," I said. "I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to his world, because he knew about war and folly. I think that he loved greatly, because he had seen what lost love is. And I think he came to know, too, that he was loved greatly." She looked at the strawberry in her hands. "But I thought you didn't want me to tell you your future.

The folly and the glory of the world... the wild, the wise and the wicked... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and the fool... the earth, the seas, the wild heavens... are all part of an endless, unfolding tapestry, woven by time and hemmed by memory.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

There is no greater folly than to try to control that which is beyond our control.

for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not

Hay una sabiduría que es dolor; pero hay un dolor que es locura.

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men.

he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion;

Look you now, how ready mortals are to blame the gods. It is from us, they say, that evils come, but they even of themselves, through their own blind folly, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

It is the height of folly to be wise too late.

Las gentes son iguales en todo el mundo: todas carecen de algo, todas caen enfermas, todas actúan con necedad, y todas sucumben a la ambición.

Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.