Folly Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom in poverty is better than folly in affluence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Free yourself from folly by surrendering to wisdom;
free yourself from evil by surrendering to God. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Evil is cruel;
folly is deceptive;
together they are destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

An ounce of naivety can earn you many days of shame. An ounce of stupidity can earn you a hundred days of shame. An ounce of insensibility can earn you a thousand days of shame. An ounce of folly can earn you countless days of shame. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A fool is surrounded by blessings, but is chained by folly and thus cannot reach them. A wise person is surrounded by blessings, and has extra-long arms to reach for them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Folly points men to the grave;
evil leads them to it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge begins where ignorance ends.
Folly ends where wisdom begins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom is reliable;
folly is unfaithful. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Maxims serve the wise;
folly enslaves fools. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Folly is strong;
wisdom is stronger.
Evil is mighty;
righteousness is mightier. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history;
nature, second.
Folly is the worst speaker in history;
fools, second. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The folly of the wise is better than the wisdom of fools. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He who overcomes fear has overcome a hundred hurdles.
He who overcomes failiure has overcome a thousand hurdles.
He who overcomes folly has overcome a million hurdles.
He who overcomes his faults has overcome countless hurdles. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A fool is a thorn in his own flesh,
and day after day his wounds worsen.
The more he serves folly,
the more foolish he becomes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Incredibly, just one mosquito species, Aedes aegypti is responsible for the spread of four known different deadly viral diseases to human beings, yet this mosquito has been allowed to infest densely-populated urban centers. — T.K. Naliaka

A lack of education fertilizes the weeds of folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Folly is a weapon of destruction;
sin is a weapon of mass destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Folly and evil are twins;
the devil is their father,
and wisdom is their enemy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom is essential;
everyone must acquire it.
Folly is dangerous;
everyone must run from it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom is more faithful than a woman,
and knowledge is more faithful than a friend.
Folly is more oppressive than a tyrant,
and evil more overwhelming than fury. — Matshona Dhliwayo

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,
to seek folly is to seek evil,
to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,
and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity. In this sphere, wisdom, which may be defined as the exercise of judgment acting on experience, common sense and available information, is less operative and more frustrated than it should be. Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests? Why does intelligent mental process seem so often not to function? — Barbara W. Tuchman

Where there is wisdom there is life,
and where there is evil there is death.
Folly is your enemy and so are fools;
wisdom is your friend and so are the wise. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not look down on any race;
no people have a monopoly on folly,
and do not look up to any race;
no people have a monopoly on wisdom.
One does not please God by his ethnicity;
one pleases God by his deeds. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Folly and evil are disciples of doom;
wisdom and righteousness are servants of life. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke. — Roman Payne

It's time we put the bud back in Buddha and the sap back in Homo sapiens, and end this age of folly - this folly-age! — S.J. Cameron

Folly's seeds produce fruits of death. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignore folly;
walk away from it.
Pay attention to wisdom;
seek it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Arm yourself with wisdom,
arm yourself with knowledge;
folly is a fierce lion roaming the streets. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When one closes his mind to understanding he opens the door to folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom's slaves are better than folly's kings. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom. — Tom Stoppard

Wisdom always ends up in gain;
folly always ends up in pain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Men are perplexed by the complexity of life;
angels are perplexed by the folly of men. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom is simple but profound.
Folly, even when complex, is stupid. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.
Wisdom, like its rewards, is great. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you. — Raheel Farooq