Quotes with follies

Quotes 21 till 26 of 26.

  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Jonathan Swift The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Voltaire We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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