Quotes About Folly

Wisdom is not merchandise, hence it is possible to come across a rich fool.

Wisdom's slaves are better than folly's kings.

Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.

Knowledge is air to the wise.Wisdom is poison to a fool.

Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.Wisdom, like its rewards, is great.

Wisdom is simple but profound.Folly, even when complex, is stupid.

Wisdom is more faithful than a woman, and knowledge is more faithful than a friend.Folly is more oppressive than a tyrant, and evil more overwhelming than fury.

It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly.

Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly.

Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools.

The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools.

Wisdom in poverty is better than folly in affluence.

The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom.

Foolishness is darkness.

An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.