Folly Quotes - Page 9

• It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Wisdom, Height

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• It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Wisdom, Wish

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• ...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

  James Lee Burke

  Heaven, Earth, Way

  James Lee Burke (2002). “Jolie Blon's Bounce: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Men, Blue

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Passion, Fire

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

  Plato

  Plato, Character, Mean

  Plato (2013). “The Republic: A Socratic Dialogue Concerning the Definition of Justice and the Order and Character of the Just City-State and the Just Man (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.322, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To think that the world can ever change without changes in our mental models is folly.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Change, Thinking, World

  Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.10, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, World

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  The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

  Herbert Hoover

  Presidential, Economics, Should

  Herbert Hoover (1937*). “American ideals and the New deal ... eight addresses upon pressing national problems”

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• It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most of the men only partially civilized. Some of its laws are good - some infinitely barbarous. None of the miracles related were performed. . . . Take out the absurdities, the miracles, all that pertains to the supernatural - all the cruel and barbaric laws - and to the remainder I have no objection. Neither would I have for it any great admiration.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever it my be found. No man can reign innocently. The folly is too evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. Do kings themselves treat otherwise those who seek to usurp their authority?

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Kings, Men, People

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• History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

  Edward Gibbon

  Historical, Humanity, Lists

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• The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

  Norm MacDonald

  Wisdom

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• The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

  Deepak Chopra

  Failure, Home, Media

  "The Greatest Crisis in the World" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2005.

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• The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.

  Mark Coleman

  Essence, Seeing, Limitation

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Inspirational, Voice, Personal Growth

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• In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fear, Wickedness, Politics

  'Table Talk' (1835) 5 October 1830

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• If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Kindness, Endure

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Real, Remembrance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Wisdom, Excess

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Health, Crime, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.84

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• I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Men, History

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• Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

  George Herbert

  Knowledge, Grace, Guides

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 364, 1895.

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• In life's last scene what prodigies surprise,
  Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!
  From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,
  And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Wise, Eye

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.39

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• Ask not of me, love, what is love?
  Ask what is good of God above;
  Ask of the great sun what is light;
  Ask what is darkness of the night;
  Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
  Ask what is happiness of heaven;
  Ask what is folly of the crowd;
  Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
  Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
  Ask of thyself what beauty is.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Life, Fashion

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.265

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