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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.
I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy.
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Folly ends where genuine hope begins.
Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.
If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half the human race has been cheated and deceived, and churches are monuments of folly. If the Bible is the Word of God and inspired, all who refuse to believe it are in fearful danger; they are living on the brink of eternal misery. No man, in his sober senses, can fail to see that the whole subject demands most serious attention.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.
Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.
Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
