“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”

— Jim Elliot

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Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador 1927–1956

Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador

Journal excerpt from Shadow of the Almighty (1989) by Elisabeth Elliot, Jim Elliot, 1949
This quote is a paraphrase of Elliot's from the original quote (below) by English nonconformist clergyman Philip Henry (1631-1696)
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“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: The Journals of Jim Elliot

“He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.”

Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador

Quoted from The life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M., Matthew Henry, J. B. Williams, pub. W. Ball, 1839 p. 35 ( Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=BUfCH_MaUS8C)
Misattributed

“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.”

William Drummond of Logiealmond (1770–1828) Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philosopher

in Academical Questions (1805), Preface, p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=U9FOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

Source: Pensées

“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool. ]”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“A fool boasts about what little he knows. A wise man keeps quiet about what he knows and is safe.”

Sarvajna Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher

Flowers of Wisdom

“Give him threepence, since he must make gain out of what he learns.”

Euclid (-323–-285 BC) Greek mathematician, inventor of axiomatic geometry

Said to be a remark made to his servant when a student asked what he would get out of studying geometry.
'threepence' renders τριώβολον "three-obol-piece". This amount increases the sarcasm of Euclid's reply, as it was the standard fee of a Dikastes for attending a court case (μίσθος δικαστικός), thus inverting the role of teacher and pupil to that of accused and juror.
The English translation is by The History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921), p. 357 http://books.google.com/books?id=h4JsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA357#v=onepage&q&f=false. The quote is recorded by Stobaeus' Florilegium iv, 114 ( ed. Teubner 1856 http://www.archive.org/stream/iohannisstobaei00meingoog#page/n598/mode/2up, p. 205; see also here http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.ch/2011/04/anecdote-about-euclid.html). Stobaeus attributes the anecdote to Serenus.
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“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle

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