“. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.” PeopleWorldMindBelieveLooksLongLightFallBeliefUnderstandingLosesSpaceTeachingThis WorldColorFoolDon't BelieveInsanityFar AwayFalsehoodSagePreyIncense Author:Bodhidharma
“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?” PeopleIfsBelieveStillsLightFallCausesDarknessHellKnowingClearEffectsFoolGoodnessAdvantageBlindDon't BelieveKarmaEndlessCriticizeDeceivingGood And BadCause And EffectHeavinessBlind PeopleDeceiving Yourself Author:Bodhidharma
“Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?” IfsKindLittlesStillsDoneLightArtistHoursSleepFoolBedOfficeDrawingDawnIphoneOffice Hours Author:David Hockney
“The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun. (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?)” ArtDoneLightRunningAgeSunSeaCryFoolMountainEthicsLaysGuidesOld AgeFasterDryWheelsFlatsNew AgeDry Up Author:C. S. Lewis
“There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.” LightMightHoursHalfMorningRocksDivineSweetFoolValleysMuseRailroads Author:John Ruskin
“If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disregard for guilt or innocence, you are effectively and knowingly issuing orders to seize innocent people and torture them. Any president who decides to do that and then says it was not his intention to do that is a fraud or a fool.” PeopleIfsGivingLightOrderPresidentFoolGreenGuiltIntentionRoundsInnocentInnocenceTortureFraudConventionsGlobesRecklessDisregardGenevaGreen LightsGeneva Convention Author:Andrew Sullivan
“There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.” StoriesLightFoundStudentsBuddhismFoolSeekingRingsRamaApprenticeDon JuanJuan Author:Frederick Lenz
“Want to discover the truth about deception in therapy? Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson have collected a formable collection of old pros whose compelling prose sheds light on an important, but previously unexplored, subtext that permeates psychotherapy. Don't fool yourself: The roadmap to avoid being duped is contained within.” WantImportantLightFoolDeceptionTherapyProseCollectionsShedCompellingPsychotherapyUnexploredSubtextCarlson Author:Jeffrey K. Zeig
“Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. But for one end, one much-neglected use, Are riches worth your care; (for nature's wants Are few, and without opulence supplied;) This noble end is, to produce the soul; To show the virtues in their fairest light; To make humanity the minister Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast The generous luxury the gods enjoy.” WantSoulEndsUseShowsLightCareHumanityEnjoyChanceTeachVirtueProduceFoolLuckyGuiltRichesNobleLuxuryMinistersGenerousBreastsSunshineProvidenceNeglectedShieldsKnavesBasenessOpulence Author:John Armstrong
“If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.” IfsMenPersonsLightFallEvilWindFoolPureInnocentDustThrownOffenseFall BackInnocent Person Book:The Dhammapada Source: The Dhammapada
“We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.” MayMadeIdeasLightWomenRocksMaterialsFoolBreathsBlowRuinsSexismKnaves Author:Jane Swisshelm
“Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.” MenDoeLightNaturalSimpleFoolGravesMannersGravityTenderness Author:William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
“You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.” PeopleGivingLooksKindBookLightMotherNightSonWallFoolColdThousandGunPrisonShipsDesertFlashSailMosesMuzzlePoints Of LightPrison Walls Author:Bruce Dickinson
“The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In light of this, they could never have sustained such unwavering motivation if they knew what they were preaching was a lie. The disciples were not fools and Paul was a cool-headed intellectual of the first rank. There would have been several opportunities over three to four decades of ministry to reconsider and renounce a lie.” IfsFirstsHas BeensLightLyingMotivationThreeOpportunityFourFoolIntellectualGainsStartingDecadesHardshipMinistryPreachingDiscipleRidiculeMartyrHostilityRenounceUnwavering Author:J.P. Moreland
“Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that's extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.” PeopleCountryLightGuyDemocracyFoolExtraordinaryBlowPolicemenBucketsFirefighterRebuildingAlready Won Author:Jon Stewart
“I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.” KindArtBookFactsLightFilmCertainRichChildhoodInformationFoolSkillsGoldCaughtDevelopingGatheringPricelessScrapPitifulArt HistoryArrangingBohemianNuggetsMagpies Book:The Moor's last sigh Source: The Moor's last sigh
“Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you tonight. Love, Michael” IfsThinkingKnowsWantHeartLittlesMadeBookHardLightWould BeRememberRomanceLostNovelSawsFoolKingsMy HeartHotShameDearThanksGenreTonightPublishRomance NovelMiaRansom Author:Meg Cabot
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!” ArtLightGriefBreakSunFoolSceneMoonFairsWindowSickGreenCastsEastArisePaleEnviousMaidsJulietRomeo And Juliet PlayRomeo JulietRomeo And Juliet JulietRomeo And Juliet RomeoRomeo And Juliet LoveRomantic Romeo And Juliet Author:William Shakespeare