Best wise & folly Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.”

Men Mind May Art Eye Form Hours Walks Wise Meditation Genius Solitude Tables Calm Crowds Folly Distraction Artificial Retired Assembly

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.”

Ifs Men Mind Light Heaven Wise Wind Reflection Flow Blow East Folly

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.”

Has Beens Laughing Wise Wine Silent Folly

Author:Homer

“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.”

Silence Wise Fool Intellectual Silent Folly Silence Is Silence Is Golden Remaining Silent Silence And Peace

Author:Jeremiah

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”

People Sometimes Wisdom Wise Stupid Fool Foolish Likes Folly Foolishness Wise People Fools And Foolishness Fools And Wise Wise Counsel

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.”

Men World Has Beens Said Wisdom Lying Differences Known Wise Fool Folly

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.”

Firsts Self Wise Degrees Thirds Folly Despise Conceit

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.”

Wise Brave Folly Prodigies

Author:Samuel Johnson

“If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.”

Ifs Long Wise Mankind Crime Folly Logical Chronicles

Author:James G. Frazer

“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”

Knows Men Lying Speak Differences Wise Subjects Mouths Substance Folly Speak The Truth

Book:Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

“There is no folly like the folly of the wise.”

Wisdom Wise Folly

Book:Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)

Source: Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)

“Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.”

World Giving Mind Games Wise Cold Golf Foolish Things To Do Folly Scope Calculating

Author:Bernard Darwin

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”

Seems Wish Wise Fool Foolish Folly

Author:Quintilian

“In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.”

Men Persons Character Common Wise Majors Folly Discourse

Book:Logic: Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth

Source: Logic: Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth

“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.”

Inspirational Wise Ignorance Bliss Folly Gray Being Wise Ignorance Is Bliss Stupidity And Ignorance Ignorance Is Not Bliss Eton Blissful Ignorance If Ignorance Is Bliss

Author:Thomas Gray

“Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.”

Men Reason Wisdom Wise Willing Accounts Foolish Proportion Folly Suspects Conceit Foolish Man

Author:John Balguy

“A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?”

People Ifs Men Should Humans Children Important Government Law Father Knowing Wise Atheism Subjects Wind Positive Atheism Folly Republic Contempt Legislature Prerogative Very Wise

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.”

Children Littles Long Wisdom Pleasure Wise Folly Midst

Book:Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.”

Love Women Love Is Wise Dangerous Danger Foolish Folly One Love

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]”

Thinking Wise Folly Sage

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.”

Thinking Wisdom Wise Solitude Folly Being Wise

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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

“A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.”

Lord Steps Wise Rely Folly Being Wise

Book:Morning and Evening

Source: Morning and Evening

“The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.”

Men World Known Wise Fool Folly Foolishness Fooled Fools And Foolishness Fools And Wise Foolish Man Fools Day

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.”

Men Imagination Love Is Pieces Wise Committed Commit Odd Folly Unworthy

Author:Thomas Browne

“The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.”

Ends Pain House Wise Fool Storm Tongue Secure Folly Quietness Brash

Book:The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae

Source: The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae

“The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.”

World Wise Injustice Folly Sentimental

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.”

Men Giving Earth Fall Born Hours Half Wise Special Rage Folly Strongest Your Strong

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

Love Dream Love Is Wise Fool Folly Teenage Love Fools And Foolishness Fools And Wise Loved And Lost Cheesy Love

Author:Samuel Johnson

“But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.”

Ifs Men Helping Problem Wise Fool Folly Help Yourself

Author:RZA

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