I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
Isaac Newton
History, in fact, is
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents Edward Gibbon
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History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents Edward Gibbon
The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. David Hume
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 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
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue’s game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so … Read more
I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
Isaac Newton