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intelligence, but that repetitive choice to continue down a path we know perfectly well leads to the abyss, clinging to outdated ideas, or chasing nonexistent illusions.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: Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirit
Quote by William Shakespeare: For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusio
Quote by William Shakespeare: Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The stupidity of men always invites the insolence
Quote by William Shakespeare: You had measured how long a fool you were upon the
Quote by William Shakespeare: But fish not with this melancholy baitFor this foo
Quote by William Shakespeare: If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ev
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wi
Quote by William Shakespeare: And writers say, as the most forward budIs eaten b
Quote by William Shakespeare: Love is your master, for he masters you;And he tha
Quote by William Shakespeare: Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand,
Quote by William Shakespeare: Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,Ang
Quote by William Shakespeare: Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in
Quote by William Shakespeare: Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous
Quote by William Shakespeare: My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.
Quote by Winston Churchill: No folly is more costly than the folly of intolera
Quote by William Shakespeare: What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his dou
Quote by William Shakespeare: Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.
Quote by William Shakespeare: Though age from folly could not give me freedom, I
Quote by William Shakespeare: Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of rea
Quote by William Shakespeare: Do not spread the compost on the weeds.
Quote by William Butler Yeats: Because this age and the next ageEngender in the d
Quote by William Shakespeare: To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans,C
Quote by William Shakespeare: The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance,
Quote by Warren Buffett: Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather