Folly Quotes

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

This freedom and heavenly cheer I have placed over all things like an azure bell when I taught that over them and through them no 'eternal will' wills. This prankish folly I have put in the place of that will when I taught: In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

When we resort to violence ... we lose sight of why we are in the world and even end up committing senseless acts of cruelty. We see this in the folly of war, where Christ is crucified yet another time.

The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt.

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils.

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

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

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to ultimate death.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable.The sequence is not predictable.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

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

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.