Author Quotes and aphorisms about folly George Orwell George Eliot Samuel Johnson Pliny the Elder Pliny the Elder ,, To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly. F... Thomas More Edward Gorey Thomas Frank ,, We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can... Harriet Beecher Stowe Tom Robbins