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Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down.… — E. M. Forster
Hunger makes a fool of a man. — H.G. Wells
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most… — Charles Caleb Colton
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an… — Sydney Smith
. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind… — Bodhidharma
Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct.… — Bodhidharma
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools. — Bodhidharma
People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any… — Ernie J Zelinski
In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all… — Derek R. Audette
You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a… — Woody Guthrie
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the… — Thomas Carlyle
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with. — Ambrose Bierce
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature,… — Baron d'Holbach
I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth... but destroying one segment of the creation… — Adela Popescu
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. — Horace
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure — George Eliot
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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