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👁 Søren Kierkegaard
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
―
Soren Kierkegaard
👁 Winston S. Churchill
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
―
Winston S. Churchill
👁 Lord Byron
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
―
George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
👁 Robert Jordan
“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
―
Robert Jordan,
Winter's Heart
👁 Octavia E. Butler
“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
―
Octavia E. Butler,
Parable of the Talents
👁 Mae West
“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
―
Mae West
👁 Idowu Koyenikan
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👁 Thomas Jefferson
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable?
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. Let us reflect that it is inhabited by a thousand millions of people. That these profess probably a thousand different systems of religion. That ours is but one of that thousand. That if there be but one right, and ours that one, we should wish to see the 999 wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. But against such a majority we cannot effect this by force. Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves.”
―
Thomas Jefferson,
Notes on the State of Virginia
👁 Ruta Sepetys
“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
―
Ruta Sepetys,
Salt to the Sea
👁 Bertrand Russell
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
―
Bertrand Russell
👁 Molière
“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
―
Moliere
👁 Michael Bassey Johnson
“Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”
―
Michael Bassey Johnson
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👁 Baruch Spinoza
“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”
―
Baruch De Spinoza,
Ethics
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👁 Stephen Fry
“Compromise is a stalling between two fools.”
―
Stephen Fry
👁 Benjamin Franklin
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
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