Famous quotes containing the words foundation of and/or foundation:
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)