Quotes about Folly

An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Feel-good answers are not enough. Twice, the book of Proverbs tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."

What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.

Truly all human glory, all temporal honour, all worldly exultation, compared to Thy eternal glory, is but vanity and folly.

But there are more wicked men to be found than good; according to Eccles. 1:15: "The number of fools is infinite.

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.

May the Devil carry away these idiots!

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

And it may be a superstition with us that if we will just give up those things we are fond of then the world will not take from us what we truly love. Which of course is a folly. The world knows what you love.

The point, Squire, is that where they used to be confined to State institutions or to the mudrooms and attics of remote country houses they are now abroad everywhere. The government pays them to travel. To procreate, for that matter. I've seen entire families here that can best be explained as hallucinations. Hordes of drooling dolts lurching through the streets. Their inane gibbering. And of course no folly so deranged or pernicious as to escape their advocacy.