Age Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

— Leonid Andreyev

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he…

— Akhenaton

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

— Charles Simmons

The wisdom of the Greeks, when compared to that of the Jews, is absolutely bestial; for apart from God there can be no wisdom,…

— Martin Luther

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

— Norm MacDonald

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

— Nicolas Chamfort

And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there…

— Philip Pullman

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

— Horace

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

— Plautus

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

— Charles Simmons