T Quotes
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“The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society, the collective has no soul; the soul belongs to the individual. Hence, those who belong to the collective are destroying every possibility of being souls.”
“The fool learns by suffering.”
“The fool looks at the finger that points at the sky”
“The fool may even look distinguished
If dressed well, in Council Hall;
And this impression's not extinguished
As long as he does not speak at all.”
Source: The Hitopadesa
“The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.”
“The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.”
Source: The Poetical works
“The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.”
“The fool rushed to certain conclusions.
The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection.
And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.”
Source: Little stings
“The fool says 'I never intended to kill. I meant only to wound.' But I tell you that if you prick a finger with a poisoned thorn you may not claim innocence when the heart dies. Do not plant a weed and pretend surprise when it grows to strangle your garden. For, I tell you that hate is to kill, for from hatred grows death as surely as life grows from love. Therefore do not nurture hatred, but love, even for those who hate you in return. Hatred wins many battles, and yet love will triumph.”
Source: Messenger of Fear
“The fool says that consequences are a myth, so his indulgence knows no end. Yet, the greater fool is the one who eventually realizes that the consequences are not a myth at all. Rather, they choose to believe that they are a product of not having indulged enough.”
“The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.”
“The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"”
“The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.”
Source: Collected Poems
“The Fool shook his head, smiling. 'No. Dragons are no better than humans. They are little different at all from men. They will hold up a mirror to humanity's selfishness. They will remind you that all your talk of owning this and claiming that is no more than the snarling of a chained dog or a sparrow's challenge song. The reality of those claims lasts but for the instant of its sounding. Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world. You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it once answered to.”
Source: Fool's Fate
“The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.”
“The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.”
Source: Half a King
“The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.”
“The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.”
“The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.”
“The fool thinks risk and reward are twins; the wise know they are strangers who rarely meet.”
Source: Ten Sacred Rules of Wealth
“The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.”
Source: Comedies of Plautus
“The fool wanders, a wise man travels.”
“The fool who believes that he had the ‘last laugh’ doesn’t realize that the last laugh typically comes long after his last laugh.”
“The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.”
“The fool who knows he is a fool is that much wiser.”
“The fool who knows his folly
Becomes wise by that fact.
But the fool who thinks he's wise -
He's called 'a fool' indeed!”
Source: The Dhammapada
“The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants”
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
“The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.”
“The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.”
“The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.”
“The fool who thinks he’s god will rather quickly discover that he is not, which simply means that the person who was fooled by the fool is none other than the fool himself.”
“The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.”
“The fool will look you directly in the face, point a ridiculing finger squarely at your chest, and confidently inform you that there is no consequence for whatever choice they’re about to make. However, the real consequences don’t occur when the fool is standing amidst the very consequences that they claimed not to exist. Rather, the real consequences occur when they are standing amidst the consequences, all the while absolutely befuddled as to why they’re on fire.”
“The fool will pay anything to live a few more years on earth, but the fool rejects the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is a wise choice.”
“The fool will tell you that there is no God. Yet, the fool is the one who believes himself to be what he is not, and God not to be what He is.”
“The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.”
“The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.”
“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.”
Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins
“The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.”
“The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.”
“The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.”
“The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.”
“The foolish and negative-minded people search the minor issues in every subject, to become human-rights-champions. All religions defend the human rights, only the poor-minded people, whoever they are, violate the human rights, not any religion and its teachings. Every society is free that how to teach its generations.”
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.”
Source: My Study Windows
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.”