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Mundaka Upanishad
First Mundaka, Second Khanda (8)
Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (5)
'Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (13)
And he crowns himself with ignorance, and takes his seat upon a throne of nescience. For while he is without reason, he leads only himself astray, for...
Dhammapada
Chapter II: On Earnestness (26)
Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom. The wise man keeps earnestness as his best jewel.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVIII (9)
Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: and ye transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion.
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (69)
Where is a man (who is) wise or powerful in intelligence, or a man whose devices are many because he knows wisdom? Let him speak wisdom; let him...
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (1-10)
The marks of the wise man, of the half wise, and of the fool. The wise man is he who possesses a torch of his own; That leader is his own director...
Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (66)
Fools of little understanding have themselves for their greatest enemies, for they do evil deeds which must bear bitter fruits.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (29)
Thus also, when we fall from God, and rely upon our own Reason, we are [but] Fools.
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (11-19)
He wanders into the boundless desert, Sometimes halting and despairing, sometimes running. He has no lamp wherewith to light himself on his way, He...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XV: The Objection to Join the Church on Account of the Diversity of Heresies Answered. (14)
Now, of those who diverge from the truth, some attempt to deceive themselves alone, and some also their neighbours. Those, then, who are called...
The Masnavi
The Sufi's Beast (61-70)
Is made to revolve by the strokes of the King's hand. O man of double vision, hearken with attention, Many are the holy words that find no entrance...
Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (63)
The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 19: Of the Entering of the Souls to God, and of the wicked Souls Entering into Perdition. Of the Gate of the Body's Breaking off [or Parting] from the Soul. (58)
Does not Christ himself say, The Children of this World are wiser in their Generation than the Children of Light?
Dhammapada
Chapter X: Punishment (136)
A fool does not know when he commits his evil deeds: but the wicked man burns by his own deeds, as if burnt by fire.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (30)
How will you then (O antichristian Fools) bind us to your Art, that we should turn away from the Heart of God, to behold your invented Fables and...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: The Knowledge Which Comes Through Faith the Surest of All. (7)
The Gnostic is therefore fixed by faith; but the man who thinks himself wise touches not what pertains to the truth, moved as he is by unstable and...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 56: How they be deceived that lean more to the curiosity of natural wit, and of clergy learned in the school of men than to the common doctrine and counsel of Holy Church (1)
SOME there be, that although they be not deceived with this error as it is set here, yet for pride and curiosity of natural wit and letterly cunning...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (39)
Hearken: If it does not become me to ask, then it does not become thee to judge me. Dost thou boast in the knowledge of the light, and art a leader...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (242-251)
Cleverness is as a wind raising storms of pride; Be foolish, so that your heart may be at peace; Not with the folly that doubles itself by vain...
Bhagavad Gita
Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yoga (16.10)
Giving themselves up to insatiable desires, full of hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance, they hold false views through delusion and act with impure...
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