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“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?”

“In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all human traits. From this it stands to reason that any man, knowing the total expanse of his existence to be finite, who does not devote every moment of his life to acts of pure selfishness, must be seen as nothing more than a fool.”

Men World Life Should Humans Persons Doe Reason Moments Existence Knowing Fool Pure Selfishness Reasonable Traits Finite Propensity Expanse

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.”

“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .”

World Needs Mind Heart Has Beens Stills Shows Body Turns Passion Known Knowing Fool Cold Kings Longing New World Stubborn Sweetness Ache Exile Beggar Risen Treason Wild Passion

Author:R. S. Thomas

“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.”

Men World Want Three Language Knowing Source Pride Fool Ill Manners Behave Defects

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

“Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.”

People Way Enough Force Heaven Knowing Fool Habit Reasoning Thoughtlessness

Author:Laurence Sterne

“God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.”

Winning Knowing Fool Rewards Crucial

Author:Mark Twain

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”

Art Creative Knowing Fool Luck Exploits Bad Luck

Author:Frank Wedekind

“if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.”

Ifs Knows Wells Mother Easy Simple Knowing Fool Goes On Daughter Innocent Manage Comparison Steers

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.”

People Pain Moving Life Is Joy Night Morning Knowing Fool Lovers Murder Warning Traffic Noon Treachery Lovers And Friends

Author:Charles Bukowski

“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”

Thinking World Humans Doe Self Wisdom Understanding Knowing Mystery Ignorance Fool Limits Mark Genuine Destroyed Limitation Deception Self Deception

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.”

Two Ends Quality Knowing Fool Sticks

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.”

Ifs Mind Might Lost Knowing Plans Fool Peace Of Mind Knowing The Truth

Author:J. K. Rowling