Foolishness Quote by Saint Augustine

“For that the power to distinguish between good and less good is the property of wisdom is evident surely even to the witless; so…

— Julian the Apostate

“Must we learn such costly lessons over and over again? Times change, but truth persists. When we fail to profit from the experiences of…

— Thomas S. Monson

“when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they…

— Andrew Murray

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.

— Hilda Doolittle

“The Book of Numbers relates that when the people murmured rebelliously against God, they were punished with a plague of fiery serpents, so that…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“We must abide in Christ moment by moment, realizing that without His empowering presence the serpent of self-sufficiency will strike us, infecting us with…

— Steve McVey

“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent…

— Mark Twain

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

— Samuel Johnson

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings…

— Walter Scott

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

— Elie Wiesel

“To the ancients, the cosmic serpent—the spirit of earth and water—was everywhere known as the energy source of life: of healing and oracular powers,…

— Monica Sjöö