"His ignorance is encyclopedic" - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That
points clearly to a political career." - George Bernard
Shaw
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert
Einstein
"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than
plagues or earthquakes." - Voltaire
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they
revere." - Voltaire
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures." - Voltaire
"We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our
tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard." - Voltaire
"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an
egg cackles as if she has laid an asteroid." - Mark Twain
"Let us be thankful for fools. But for them the rest of us
could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if
they met on the street." - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible." - Henry Louis
Mencken (1880-1956)
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they
cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence." - John
Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)
"Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as
your pearl in a foul oyster." - William Shakespeare (1564-
1616), "As You Like It" 1596-1600, act I, sc. IV
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom
of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
(1813-1855)
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do
so." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains
from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot
(1819-1880)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the
hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank
Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called
cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man
does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
- Einstein, Albert
<font size=5>"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou
hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere:
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