Folly Quotes

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. George Orwell
Politics Age Political Hatred Schizophrenia Our Out Lies Folly Mass Issues Political Issues Itself Keeping Thing
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. Voltaire
Nature Humanity Law First Tolerance Other Frailty Pardon Folly First Law Error Formed Us Each Let Us Consequence
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. Edmund Burke
Wisdom Freedom Liberty Madness Virtue Evils Possible Folly Restraint Without Greatest Tuition Vice
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw
Education Art Science Fool Pedantry Digest Philosophy Folly Superstition Brain Hence University
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. Akhenaton
Wisdom Wise Man Ignorance Wise Man Fool Mind Own Presuming All Things Folly He True Obstinate True Wisdom His Than Often Less Things
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Enemy Luxury Own Our Criminality Folly Contend Within Gates
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray
Wise Ignorance Folly Bliss Where Tis Ignorance Is Bliss
Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly. Ellen G. White
Music Good Blessing Satan Pride Made Vanity Folly Leads Abuse Most Attractive Souls Account Agencies Turned
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. Richard Dawkins
Faith Religion Me People Dangerous Kind Folly Mental Seems Mental Illness Driving Qualify Capable Illness
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. John Quincy Adams
Honesty Men Long Believe Worse Would Would-Be Folly Something None Profess Honest
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. William Blake
Wisdom Folly Hours Clock Measure Measured
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. Alexander Hamilton
Government People Will Nothing Benefit Please Inquiry Constantly Temporary Folly Expedient
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. E. O. Wilson
Natural Destruction Will Diversity Our Correct Folly Habitats Take Genetic Likely Least Years Loss Forgive Going Process Us Descendants Now Species Millions Millions Of Years
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Epicurus
Man Power Folly He Obtain Himself Pray Gods Which
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer
World Result Men Fools Folly Ultimate Effects Fill
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. Marguerite Duras
God Man Master Own Alcohol On The Contrary Destiny Console Folly He Supreme Him Comfort His Encourages Up Contrary Lack Where Anyone Psychological Regions Transports Gaps Fill
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. Robert Peel
Feeling Weakness Paragraphs Compound Folly Wrong Obstinacy Opinion Public Newspaper Prejudice Public Opinion Right
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov
Future Humanity Burden Important Lost Stars Too Folly Superstition Juvenile Ignorant
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift
Mistake Too London Kingdom Folly Echo Voice Many
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Pythagoras
Anger Repentance Folly Begins Ends
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. Warren Buffett
Enemy Profit Market Folly Rather Participate Look Friend Than Your
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. William Blake
Wise Fool Become Would Folly He His Persist
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. Henry Drummond
Achievement Man World Worth Become Before Ambition Every Vain Caring Folly Only The Only Thing Which Lower Whole Thing
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. John Bright
Me You Every Member Tory Folly Fact House House Of Commons Partisan Reply Stoop Cannot Commons Poor Should Noticed Who Slander
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. J. R. R. Tolkien
Folly Part Friend May Rebuke
Those who realize their folly are not true fools. Zhuangzi
Fools Those Folly True Realize Who
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