Quotes About Folly

His name is fool and folly goes with him everywhere he goes" (1 Samuel 25:25, paraphrased).

If we aren't walking in wisdom, intimacy, and understanding with our Lord, we are walking in folly. And folly's ways lead to death.

Such is the folly of humanity. Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?

Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third.

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly.

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly." Nor could he do so as regards his own. He was to lose

El poder, no obstante, abre la puerta a cometer grandes idioteces.[36]

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

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

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

I find the folly of men amusing

Such is the commander's lot. Such is the folly of humanity. Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?

Most men, in my experience, are fools.

C'est la folie humaine que je trouve amusante.

Answer a fool according to his folly" (Proverbs 26:4).

You can not fix STUPID!

We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time. So that to believe in medicine would be the height of folly, if not to believe in it were not greater folly still, for from this mass of errors there have emerged in the course of time many truths.

I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread if he tells himself that at any moment a stranger will bequeath to him his fortune. We must all, in order to make reality more tolerable, keep alive in us a few little follies.

Even the best of saints, being left to themselves, will quickly appear to be less than men—to be nothing! All our own strength is weakness, and all our wisdom folly.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

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