(216 quotes found)
“He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.”
Proverb
“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
“The common curse of mankind, -- folly and ignorance.”
William Shakespeare
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
William Blake
“PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.”
Ambrose Bierce
“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
Herbert Spencer
“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
“The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”
Blaise Pascal
“EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. --Joel Frad Bink”
