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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

Life, Work, Best

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

Education, Art, Science

Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin

Beauty, Old, Companions

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

Nature, Humanity, Law

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

Age, Politics, Political

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke

Wisdom, Greatest, Liberty

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett

Enemy, Friend, Rather

One man's folly is another man's wife.
Helen Rowland

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience, Wisdom, Old

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Enemy, Within, Luxury

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov

Future, Important, Humanity

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake

Wise, Fool, Become

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Life, Age, Human

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus

Power, Himself, Gods

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake

Wise, Fool, Become

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams

Men, Long, Honesty

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Alone, Wise

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wise, Lives, Thinks

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

Love, Wisdom, Wise

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Life, Help, Necessary

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake

Wisdom, Hours, Measure

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson

Wisdom, Others, Keep

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot

Wisdom, Laughter, Half

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray

Wise, Ignorance, Bliss

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras

God, Him, Destiny

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France

Wisdom, Enthusiasm, Prefer

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope

Good, Sense, Genius

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

Wise, Makes, Injustice

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson

Forgive, Process, Natural

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