"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness." ― Cyril Connolly Topic(s): Wisdom More From Cyril Connolly "Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster." "The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food." "We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving." More In Wisdom "The greatest wisdom is to realize one’s lack of it."― Constantin Stanislavski "Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."― Josh Billings "I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth."― Barry White