A Quote by Witold Gombrowicz

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Witold Gombrowicz

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Witold Gombrowicz
Polish - Writer
August 4, 1904 - July 24, 1969

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Jane Smiley

Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

Paul Tillich

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Hermann Hesse

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

Taiye Selasi

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.

Marcel Proust

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

Douglas Adams

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Sophocles

The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

Alistair Begg

One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of 'For Better or Worse.' I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, 'Action!' and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.