Zitat des Tages über Torheit / Folly:
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
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.
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
'Tis folly to be wise.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
