Folly/history

Famous quotes containing the words folly and/or history:

“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)