“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
James A. Garfield
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Anatole France
“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
Elizabeth Gaskell
“It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day”
Owen Meredith
“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
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy”
William Shakespeare
