A Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte
French - Statesman
August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

William Hazlitt

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Gautama Buddha

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

George Bernard Shaw

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

Lafcadio Hearn

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

Gautama Buddha

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

Marjorie Bowen

We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.

Antonin Artaud

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Honore de Balzac

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

Rudyard Kipling

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

Napoleon Hill

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

J. B. Priestley

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.