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“Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!”

Humans Hard Wisdom Sleep Fool Sorrow Advantage Boat Streams Vessel Free Yourself

Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva

“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. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?”

“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 to their own prejudice.”

Men May Turns Wise Fool Advantage Prejudice Accidents Fortunate Unfortunate

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.”

Self Wise Fool Advantage Satisfied Foolishness

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.”

Games Natural Fool Advantage Investing Timing

Author:Nick Murray

“Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.”

Men Helping Watches Struggle Greater Fate Fool Weakness Gains Advantage Intelligent Fingers Lifts Great Men Bankruptcy Intelligent Man Grocers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.”

Men Play Might Fool Advantage Fortune Knaves

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.”

Writing Facts Poor Moral Talent Ready Fool Honor Glory Advantage Needy Remuneration

Book:Ruth Hall

Source: Ruth Hall

“Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.”

Games Fool Advantage

Author:Daniel Burrus

“So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.”

“I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.”

Knows Mean Hard Found Easy Mistake Fool Advantage Careful Experiments Making Mistakes

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.”

Men Giving Wise Fool Advantage

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.”

Men Shows Suffering Fool Laughter Advantage Foundation Endure Nonsense Show Me Complaints Fortitude

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German