"The wise person
questions
himself, the fool others."
Henri Arnold
"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition
is a fool."
Albert Camus
"Young men think
old men
are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
George
Chapman, All Fools, 1605
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
Euripides
"Any
fool can
criticise,
condemn and complain and most fools do."
Benjamin Franklin
"Just
in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very
efficient.
There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
Bill
Gates, billionaire
"Speaking
from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years
ago
a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the
inn was full...."
Al
Gore
"Why
does the universe
go to all the bother of existing?"
Stephen Hawking
"Fools live to regret their words,
wise men to regret their silence."
Will
Henry
"Psychology: The
theory that the
patient
will probably get well anyhow, and is certainly a damned fool."
H.L.
Mencken
"Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is
why most men are miserable."
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"Religion
is
something left over from
the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason
and
science as our guidelines."
Bertrand
Russell
"The
whole
problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain
of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand
Russell
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