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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
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