Praise Of Folly Quotes

#1. Erasmus's The Praise of Folly. According to a footnote, the argument of the growing heap is: If ten coins are not enough to make a man rich, what if you add one coin? What if you add another? Finally, you will have to say that no one can be rich unless one coin can make him so.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There

Samuel R. Delany

#3. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Ronald Reagan

#4. Well China, you got us. Phelps was doping - and he still beat you. He smoked the sticky-icky, and then he smoked your ass!

Stephen Colbert

#5. Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

Margaret Millar

#6. I Came To Mumbai With Just Rs. 1,500 ... My Mother Gave Me Before She Died

Shahrukh Khan

#7. In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The one big fact is that science traffics in ignorance, cultivates it, and is driven by it.

Stuart Firestein

#8. I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!

Milton H. Erickson

#9. Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

Horace

#10. People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Carl Lewis

#11. Many men in the Homes of the Scholars have had strange new ideas in the past," said Solidarity 8-1164, "but when the majority of their brother Scholars voted against them, they abandoned their ideas, as all men must.

Ayn Rand

#12. Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#13. The larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

Soren Kierkegaard

#14. Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

Henry Mintzberg