Quotes About Folly

What is the use of being moral in a night-cellar, or wise in Bedlam? —WILLIAM HAZLITT,

For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

But we all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

But we all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Speran?a este un sfetnic prost.

But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos-- we know what's out there. It's what isn't that truly compels us.

Without saying a word to each other we know that, if we chose to, we could venture into something reckless, also pointless.

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

You can fix a lot of things, but you cannot fix stupidity.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

girls their mothers' nature share. So be not thou. For pity's sake Accept the word the monarch spake. Thy husband's will, O Queen, obey, And be the people's hope and stay, O, do not, urged by folly, draw The king to tread on duty's law.

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man: there is no Folly that may not have a thousand Reasons produc'd to advance it into the Class of Wisdom. Reason itself is a Mist.

Never be curious. It is the path to perdition.

Only the wise know folly; fools know neither wisdom nor folly. Just as it takes wisdom to know folly, light to know darkness, it takes profundity to know vanity, meaning to know meaninglessness.

I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.

I guess you are," said Lee. "You have a strange way about you, Dr Grumman. You ever spend any time among the witches?" "Yes," said Grumman. "And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.