Quotes About Folly

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.

For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practioners, 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 recognised 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.

You have not, perhaps, any personal merit; so few of us have! But for a time at least you have youth, and that is always a charm. Besides, sir, the greatest folly of all is to laugh at or to condemn in others what one does not happen oneself to feel. I love the night, and you tell me that you are afraid of it.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

Stupidity is like art. Everyone can do it, but only the truly gifted are masters at it.

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

You humans are crazy.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.