Folly Quotes

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

Wisdom’s slaves are better than folly’s kings.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,to seek folly is to seek evil,to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they do not see what they do not wish to see, what is useless to them, or disagreeable.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.

The problems you have are there for me to help you solve, not to have with you.

Progressive thought is blind when it suggests that there can be no anti-white racism or an anti-semitism among the formerly oppressed or the young people in the projects because they themselves have suffered from this evil. They are the victims; they are exempt from the prejudices that affect the majority of the population. But the reverse is true: racism is multiplying at exponential rates among groups and communities, taboos are collapsing, and everything is explained in terms of physical characteristics, identity, purity, and difference. and this is a racism that is all the more certain that it is right because it is regarded as a legitimate reaction on the part of the persecuted. now we see the obsession with the pedigree and the old distinctions derived from slavery being revived, and prejudices accumulating in the name of racism. This is the end of the concept of humanity as union in diversity and the triumph of human species incompatible with each other.

Wisdom is simple but profound.Folly, even when complex, is stupid.

We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and fortune, since God has been abolished whose bodyguard we really were. But nobody can ever get woman out of our hearts; there she is, and there she will remain, and we love her, and shall continue to love her, and go on committing all kinds of follies on her account as long as there is a France on the map of Europe; and even if France were to be wiped off the map, there would always be Frenchmen left.

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.

Answer a fool according to his folly.

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.