Best Folly Quotes

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

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

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

Don’t bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

When ignorance is bliss, there’s folly in wisdom.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that’s saying something.

When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

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.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that ‘liberals’ will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.