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“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”

Enough Political Brain Practice Honest Fool Tricks Being Honest Deception Deceit Treachery

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important”

Trying Important Purpose Practice Fool Get Away Drills

Author:Albert Pujols

“People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.”

People Practice Imagine Fool Emptiness Liars Thoughtlessness

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.”

Art Play Practice Modern Taught Masters Fool Doctors Bills Medicine Mistaken Fool Me

Book:An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.”

Knows Men Action Practice Danger He Man Fool Headstrong

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.”

Ifs Should Soul Can Do Practice Talent Fool Jazz

Author:Stewart Copeland

“The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught up in powerful vortexes of negative energy which pull you into the lower bardo regions ... into the mud.”

Philosophy Problem Energy Powerful Practice Fool Negative Caught Regions Caught Up Mud Tantra Vortex Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.”

Two Practice Theory Fool Realms Scoundrels Theory And Practice

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.”

Practice Fool Devil Praise Idiot Damn Abortion Atrocities Misguided Treacherous

Author:Christopher Titus

“A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Sound Realizing Consciousness Practice Huge Wall Fool What If Sophisticated Foolishness Wrong Things Self Consciousness Erudite Beginning Writers

Author:Richard Bach

“The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.”

People Men Order Practice Wise Masters Fool Argument Statistics Superstitions

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon

“There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.”

Two Practice Fool Understood Communicate Reports Secrecy Readiness

Author:Norm MacDonald

“The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.”

Persons Spiritual House Practice Study Fool Blueprints Spiritual Practice

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.”

Sin Practice Virtue Honest Fool Cheating Cunning Prudence

Author:Giacomo Casanova