Folly Quotes

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. (Samuel Johnson)
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. View quote
Herbert Spencer
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Paul Valéry
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. View quote
James A. Garfield
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure. View quote
William Blake
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. View quote
William Blake
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! (Denis Diderot)
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. View quote
Pythagoras
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. View quote
James Frazer
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. View quote
Marguerite Duras
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. View quote
Edmund Burke
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty. View quote
Frances Burney
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference. (Anatole France)
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. View quote
Lord Byron
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others. View quote
Pliny the Elder
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. View quote
Voltaire
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. View quote
Abraham Lincoln