Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Life is an incurable disease.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.

Of all ills that one endures hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Life is an incurable Disease.

The present is an eternal now.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

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

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.