Gautama Buddha Quotes

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

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• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Hair
  • Fool
  • Disney

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Fool
  • Laughing

• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Fool

• He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Fool
  • Others
  • Himself

• 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
  • Up
  • Man
  • Wise

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Wise
  • Fool

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Wise Man

• A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Hair
  • Wise

• Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Blow

• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• A man who does not fool himself seldom cares much about fooling others. But the man who claims to have seen a ghost wants everybody else to believe in ghosts.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Believe
  • Fool

• I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • True
  • Death
  • Fool

• Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks...

  

  Ben Jonson
  • May
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,Of base ambition and the urge to rule;That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.That I not call my brother to atone;Make chaste my heart and lend me from aboveThy fortitude, humility, and love.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Perfect
  • Fool
  • Clever

• There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Fool

• The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Fool

• Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

  

  Christopher Marlowe
  • Fool

• Anyone who dismisses out of hand evidence that U.S. intelligence agencies still do some of the things that they now brag about having done not too long ago is not a skeptic, but a fool.

  

  Barrett Brown
  • Fool
  • Evidence
  • Dismiss

• I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Protrude

• A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fool
  • Wise Man
  • Learns