(216 quotes found)
“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!”
Denis Diderot
“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”
Warren Buffett
“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
Paul Valery
“When lovely woman stoops to folly and / Paces about her room again, alone, / She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, / And puts a record on the gramophone.”
T.S. Eliot
“Folly is the cloak of knavery.”
William Blake
“Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.”
Tom Robbins
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
Epicurus
“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
“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
“Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.”
Robert Owen
