Quotes About Folly

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

There is no fire like passion; there is no shark like hatred; there is no snare like folly; there is no torrent like greed.

Du hast vergessen, daß Liebende heilig sind. Auch wenn sie sich irren, Joh; selbst ihr Irrtum ist heilig. Auch wenn sie Narren sind, Joh; selbst ihre Narrheit ist heilig. Denn wo Liebende sind, ist der Garten Gottes, und niemand hat das Recht, sie daraus zu vertreiben. Nicht einmal Gott.

Folly is truth in the form which men are struck with as amid untruth they will not let truth go.

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.

How many there are who perish because of vain worldly knowledge and too little care for serving God. They became vain in their own conceits because they chose to be great rather than humble. He is truly great who has great charity. He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest honor. He is truly wise who looks upon all earthly things as folly that he may gain Christ. He who does God's will and renounces his own is truly very learned.

What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.

Truly all human glory, all temporal honour, all worldly exultation, compared to Thy eternal glory, is but vanity and folly.

But there are more wicked men to be found than good; according to Eccles. 1:15: "The number of fools is infinite.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

Never did man make worse use of his wits than thou hast done.

Folly is that wisdom which is wise only behindhand.

Everyman has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

Every man has his folly. But the greatest folly of all is not to have one

He understood and accepted that humans were basically ridiculous.

Pimple young. Giggling young. Silly young and stupid as me.

If you believe Leondard, this is how Hell breaks people down -- by permitting them to act out to greater and greater extremes, becoming vicious caricatures of themselves, earning fewer and fewer rewards, until they finally realize their folly. Perhaps, I muse over the telephone, that is the one effective lesson which one learns in Hell.