#fools

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. ↗

— Simone Weil

#brute force #cannot #corpses #dead #easier

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#fools #imagination #knowledge #without

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chicken #direction #down #easy #edited

Sure," said Adrian. "I bet going in there and kicking down the door will change their minds. Take Rose with you, and you guys'll make a really good impression. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #telling-fools-how-it-is #change

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#april #as far as #cometh #ever #far

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. ↗

— William Lamb Melbourne

#discovered #fools #man #neither #nor

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#control #fools #haters #nations #under

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#delight #every #every man #fools #gazing

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#continually #days #example #fact #fools

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#done #fools #just #majority #opposite