"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness." ― Cyril Connolly Topic(s): Wisdom More From Cyril Connolly "There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives." "In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female." "Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose." More In Wisdom "In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world."― Lucy Powell "So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."― Zooey Deschanel "But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."― Edmund Burke