A Quote by Anatole France

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

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Anatole France
French - Novelist
April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

George Eliot

Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt.

Isaac Barrow

You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.

William Allen White

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

Walter Savage Landor

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

T. S. Eliot

Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Elie Wiesel

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

Philip Pullman

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

Mencius

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Karl Lagerfeld

Indifference to love or hate is sitting on the fence between the two, refusing to engage either one of them. Indifference, if it had its own way, would prefer to step away from the whole struggle between love and hate, to walk away from the only real game in the world and wallow in its own mediocrity.

Mark R. Woodward

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

Norm MacDonald

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

Horace

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