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“Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.”

Lasts Spirit Causes Effects Highest Capable Folly Contradiction Heroism Obstinacy

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.”

Men Capable Apples Folly Adam Adam And Eve

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.”

Ifs Humans Self States Seems Found Nations Levels Numbers Alive Heard Modern Capable Destruction Structure Surprise Persistence Folly Genes Large Numbers Human Society Self Destruction

Author:Lewis Thomas

“A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”

Ifs Teach Fool Waste Benefits Capable Folly Annoying Protected Pigs Attempting Animosity

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.”

Humans Law Individual Natural Wealth Powerful Effort Liberty Conditions Capable Prosperity Libertarian Operations Folly Libertarianism Assistance Individual Liberty Carrying On Obstruction

Author:Adam Smith

“The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.”

Men Mind May Made Action Past Study Wise Capable Errors Improvement Pursuit Fallen Folly Retrospect Credulity Great Minds

Book:Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

Source: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

“It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.”

Men World Social Plans Capable Folly Pencils Slate

Book:Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner

Source: Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner

“I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.”

Men Believe I Believe History Capable Folly

Author:Carl Jung