Folly/history

Famous quotes containing the words folly and/or history:

“Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)