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- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
- Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
- A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- None are so busy as the fool and knave.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700), The Medal, 1682
- Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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