folly

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
9f5bc08	Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.	blindness denial folly love refusal romance vanity	Jane Austen
0ec4493	Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]	fear folly	Robert A. Heinlein
5ed5bfd	National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.	astronomy conceit earth folly human-nature nationalism pride science space	Carl Sagan
dc8d582	It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.	colonizer danger fear folly humanity humans madness mind-control nuclear-bomb nuclear-threat nuclear-weapons truth white whiteness	Arundhati Roy
8a7ea9a	It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.	fame folly power rank ruins society wealth	Alain de Botton
bf4a727	I have a cunning plan.	folly overconfidence	Richard Curtis
477ce99	Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom.	folly wisdom	Edith Wharton
bed81f0	Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.	folly foolishness guilt regret	Ian Fleming
2567a3c	It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen to return, I would ever wonder whether my choice was made through wisdom or following the wishes of my own heart. I see this is as it must be, and the destiny laid upon me. I am content to die here.	fate folly love wisdom	Lloyd Alexander
c9c38f3	...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.	folly gifts heaven mistakes-man-makes	James Lee Burke
2be3d4c	One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.	folly old-age	Glen Cook
ea346d5	It would be an act of wisdom to depart immediately... but wisdom is itself the product of knowledge; and knowledge, unfortunately, is generally the product of foolish doings. So, to add to my own knowledge and to enhance my wisdom I shall remain another day, to see what occurs.	binah da-ath daring folly knowledge risk vramin wisdom	Roger Zelazny
84c0f74	Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil -- or perhaps just of folly -- when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die	death evil folly ice sailing ship skill	Dan Simmons

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

blindness denial folly love refusal romance vanity

Jane Austen

0ec4493

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

fear folly

Robert A. Heinlein

5ed5bfd

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

astronomy conceit earth folly human-nature nationalism pride science space

Carl Sagan

dc8d582

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

colonizer danger fear folly humanity humans madness mind-control nuclear-bomb nuclear-threat nuclear-weapons truth white whiteness

Arundhati Roy

8a7ea9a

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

fame folly power rank ruins society wealth

Alain de Botton

bf4a727

I have a cunning plan.

folly overconfidence

Richard Curtis

477ce99

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom.

folly wisdom

Edith Wharton

bed81f0

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

folly foolishness guilt regret

Ian Fleming

2567a3c

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen to return, I would ever wonder whether my choice was made through wisdom or following the wishes of my own heart. I see this is as it must be, and the destiny laid upon me. I am content to die here.

fate folly love wisdom

Lloyd Alexander

c9c38f3

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

folly gifts heaven mistakes-man-makes

James Lee Burke

2be3d4c

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.

folly old-age

Glen Cook

ea346d5

It would be an act of wisdom to depart immediately... but wisdom is itself the product of knowledge; and knowledge, unfortunately, is generally the product of foolish doings. So, to add to my own knowledge and to enhance my wisdom I shall remain another day, to see what occurs.

binah da-ath daring folly knowledge risk vramin wisdom

Roger Zelazny

84c0f74

Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil -- or perhaps just of folly -- when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die

death evil folly ice sailing ship skill

Dan Simmons