folly quotes

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

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.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

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.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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

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

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.