Quotes About Folly

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

What would happen if we withdrew? Ã¢â'¬Â¦ After the enormous expenditure which we have incurred in freeing this country from the withering despotism of the Turk, to hand it back to anarchy and confusion, and to take no responsibility for its development would be an act of folly and quite indefensible.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Langley would never complete his newspaper project. I knew that and I'm sure he knew it as well. It was a crazy foolish hand-rubbing scheme that kept his mind in the mood he liked to be in.

By Amergin, can neither of you see the folly? Ending the lives of these men will change nothing. The only one changed will be you, Brie. Remember the tale of Casiope, the archer? Revenge is as an arrow; it will surely return one day and pierce the one who shoots it. -Collun

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Ecclesiastes 1:15, "The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind (Chapter 65,p. 68)

But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn't all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn't have been the real thing.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

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

Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.