“I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.” FactsFoolEverydayCensorshipSuppressionNo Confidence Author:James Harvey Robinson
“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.” MenSaidPlayFactsWantedSchoolFatherLeftStageFootballFoolAssPro Football Author:Bill Cosby
“The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.” WorldHas BeensFactsSchoolForeverFoolTruth IsEconomicsCommittedDoctrineConclusionAssumptionParadiseEconomistRenunciationFling Book:Political Economy Source: Political Economy
“The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no reason for me to do these things. The reason for me to do these things is that I, too, am an idiot.” PeopleReasonFactsLosesFoolIdiotNo ReasonExcess Author:John S. Hall
“Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.” LooksFactsEvilCitiesBreakAtheismFoolKingsWasteBuiltLuckLaysCalmDivinityGood And EvilFraudDeceivingOathPiousFablesCredence Author:Euripides