Foolishness Quote by Henry Dircks

“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this…

— George Eliot

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

— Ambrose Bierce

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable…

— Theodore Roszak

“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.…

— Oscar Wilde

“You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“A true genius is my brother, for his ability to measure and adapt his imagination to knowledge is unbounded. He can turn laziness into…

— Lionel Suggs

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves of our…

— Will Durant

“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“For it is no doubt impossible to eradicate everything at once from their obstinate minds, because he who endeavours to reach the highest place…

— Pope Gregory I

“The learning of ‘How’ is the eternal ‘Why’ – unanswered! A genius is such, because he does not know how or why.”

— Austin Osman Spare