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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
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool. — Zhuangzi
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. — Jonathan Swift
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. — Amos Bronson Alcott
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman. — James Russell Lowell
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As… — William Shakespeare
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. — William Shakespeare
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous… — William Shakespeare

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