Enlightenment Quote by Walter Savage Landor

The power of philosophy floats through my head, Light like a feather, Heavy as Led

— Bob Marley

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

— Baron de Montesquieu

As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my…

— Max Beckmann

No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

— Gautama Buddha

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

— Alice Walker

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

— Quintilian

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

— Huangbo Xiyun

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

— Horace

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

— Luc de Clapiers

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

— William Blake

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world…

— Plato