“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.”
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
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“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”
Beverly Sills (1929–2007) opera soprano
Pythagoras, as quoted in Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
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“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Source: Why I Am An Agnostic and Other Essays
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Source: The Story of My Life (1932), Ch. 4 "Called To The Bar"
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
“Confusion is the beginning of wisdom.”
A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 60, “Values and Knowledge” (p. 236)
“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Françoise Sagan book Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)