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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. -- Tom Robbins
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. -- Bertrand Russell
I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly. -- Isaac Newton
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? -- Pat Robertson
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. -- Teresa of Avila
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. -- Carl Sagan
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. -- Bertrand Russell
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. -- David Hume
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. -- Steven Pinker
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly. -- Robert K. Massie
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition. -- Hilary of Poitiers
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third. -- Aubrey Menen
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. -- Desiderius Erasmus
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. -- Yann Martel
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly. -- Paracelsus
Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. -- Charles Spurgeon
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third. -- John F. Kennedy

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