Folly/history

Famous quotes containing the words folly and/or history:

“If one gives answer before hearing, it is folly and shame.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:13.

“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)