"No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks."
― Erica Jong
Topic(s): Wisdom
― Erica Jong
More From Erica Jong
- "Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?"
- "I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."
- "Men have always detested women’s gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared."
More In Wisdom
- "To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."― William Hazlitt
- "The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery."― David Brainerd
- "Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."― George Santayana