Folly Quotes

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

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.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.