Folly
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Folly Quotes

“Folly,” a word as old as time, yet it renews itself with every dawn. It’s not merely a lack of intelligence, but that repetitive choice to continue down a path we know perfectly well leads to the abyss, clinging to outdated ideas, or chasing nonexistent illusions. And worst of all, it’s failing to learn from yesterday’s mistakes and repeating them, as if history itself is nothing but a massive record of humanity's ceaseless follies that have not stopped and will never stop, as if we are condemned to an endless vicious cycle.

So, how did the wise view this chronic malady, and how do the following quotes warn us against inherent human folly?

Quotes about Folly

Quote by William Shakespeare: The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the w
Quote by William Shakespeare: We that are true lovers run into strange capers; b
Quote by William Shakespeare: How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
Quote by William Shakespeare: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere foll
Quote by William Shakespeare: She marking them begins a wailing note And sings e
Quote by William Shakespeare: Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those
Quote by William Shakespeare: We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.
Quote by William Shakespeare: This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their p
Quote by William Shakespeare: Wishers were ever fools.
Quote by William Shakespeare: Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to her
Quote by William Shakespeare: The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily
Quote by William Shakespeare: If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark
Quote by William Shakespeare: What a terrible era in which idiots govern the bli
Quote by William Shakespeare: I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body
Quote by William Shakespeare: Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserve
Quote by William Shakespeare: Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Quote by William Shakespeare: The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learn
Quote by William Shakespeare: Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but ma
Quote by William Shakespeare: The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a
Quote by William Shakespeare: The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Quote by William Shakespeare: Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Quote by William Shakespeare: I will not be sworn but love may transform me to a
Quote by William Shakespeare: Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deli
Quote by William Shakespeare: Covering discretion with a coat of folly.
Quote by William Shakespeare: They are hare-brain'd slaves.