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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Fool

• Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,When you, you wonder why, love none.We love, Fool, for the good we do,Not that which unto us is done!

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Good
  • Done
  • Why

• I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know thenI wish I could start this whole thing over againI'm not sayin' it's you could never be trueI just don't wanna know how it endsYou'd still have my heart in the palm of your handsI'd still look like a fool in front of your friendsYeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Heart
  • Wish
  • Fool

• I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Trying
  • Small
  • Fool

• A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

  

  Leonard Maltin
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Christmas

• I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

  

  Martha Wainwright
  • People
  • Fool

• When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

  

  Confucius
  • Wise Man
  • Points
  • Finger

• It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.

  

  Reinhard Selten
  • Ideas
  • Research
  • Hiking

• If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Time
  • Great
  • Song

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

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fool
  • Wise Man
  • Learns