#folly

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't. ↗

— Mary Astell

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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

#folly #future #humanity #ignorant #important

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fool #love #love is #wisdom #wise

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#day #folly #for the day #leaves #prepares

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#men

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. ↗

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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