“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)
Original
Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima stultitia caruisse.
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Horace 92
Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BCRelated quotes
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”
Pythagoras, as quoted in Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
Misattributed
“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”
As quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Source: Why I Am An Agnostic and Other Essays
Source: The Story of My Life (1932), Ch. 4 "Called To The Bar"
“Confusion is the beginning of wisdom.”
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.”
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)