Built Quote by Paul Valery Download Open image “The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.” — Paul Valery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Folly Inspirational Oneself Oracles
“The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking their own… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths,… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Believe your heart, especially when it's already tried and tested. Never contradict it, for it can usually foresee what matters most. It is your… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. — Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
