Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. Samuel Johnson English Author More Samuel Johnson Quotes 8
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov American Scientist More Isaac Asimov Quotes 2
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. George Orwell British Author More George Orwell Quotes 1
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 1
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. Mason Cooley American Writer More Mason Cooley Quotes 1
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Voltaire French Writer More Voltaire Quotes 1
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. John Webster English Playwright More John Webster Quotes 0
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist More George Bernard Shaw Quotes 0
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. Richard Whately English Writer More Richard Whately Quotes 0
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Beverly Sills American Musician More Beverly Sills Quotes 0
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. E. O. Wilson American Scientist More E. O. Wilson Quotes 0
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. Robert South English Clergyman More Robert South Quotes 0
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut. Philip Stanhope British Statesman More Philip Stanhope Quotes 0
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer English Philosopher More Herbert Spencer Quotes 0
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. Harriet Beecher Stowe American Author More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes 0
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift Irish Writer More Jonathan Swift Quotes 0
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. Jonathan Swift Irish Writer More Jonathan Swift Quotes 0
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. Publilius Syrus Roman Writer More Publilius Syrus Quotes 0
And the feather pate of folly / Bears the falling of the sky. A. E. Housman English Scholar More A. E. Housman Quotes 0
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. Alfred, Lord Tennyson English More Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes 0
There has to be a more satisfactory answer than let's do more of the same. It's a bit of folly to say people don't put down roots and aren't needed in these jobs. Angela Kelley More Angela Kelley Quotes 0
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity. Antonin Artaud More Antonin Artaud Quotes 0
Woman is the chain by which man is attached to the chariot of folly. Bharitihari More Bharitihari Quotes 0
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. Carmina Horace More Carmina Horace Quotes 0
Poor Catullus, cease your folly and give up for lost what you see is lost. Catullus More Catullus Quotes 0