Quotes About Folly

In the past, a partial and inadequate view of human purpose has been relatively innocuous only because it has been accompanied by technical limitations. . . This is only one of the many places where human impotence has shielded us from the full destructive impact of human folly.

Jokes and folklore and poetic metaphor, the wisdom of folly, tell the secret truth.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom—is to die.

Denn Dummheit und Glück ja mit vorliebe Hand in Hand gingen.

there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.

If there is one thing I will not abide, it is the folly of a willful pride.

Kvothe, Defend yourself well at the University. Make me proud. Remember your father's song. Be wary of folly. Your friend, Abenthy.

He understood how grief can twist a heart, how passions drive good men to folly.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Malgus knew it was folly. Empires and the men who ruled empires could not stay sharp when surrounded by comfort, by peace.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

L'amore consiste nell'essere cretini insieme.

Not at all. But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

Both white and black acknowledge women?s sway, So much the better and the wiser too, Deeming it most convenient to obey, Or possibly they might their folly rue.*

Queuing to pick up their Darwin Award

and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.

I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.

Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.