Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
Mark TwainTags: fools
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
George W. BushTags: dumb bushism foolishness fools
Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
Stephen FryTags: humor foolishness fools compromise
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Heinrich HeineTags: fools
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale CarnegieTags: criticism fools misattributed-ben-franklin condemnation complaint
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.
Søren KierkegaardTags: truth willful-ignorance self-deception fools blindness willful-blindness
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
Henry JamesTags: fools
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander PopeTags: caution angels fearlessness fools delicacy indiscretion
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 JeffersonTags: error reason fools religious-violence free-inquiry hypocrites uniformity
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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