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  • #1
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #2
    Lord Byron
    “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
    George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

  • #3
    Agatha Christie
    “The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
    William Shakespeare, King Lear

  • #5
    George R.R. Martin
    “The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #6
    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

  • #7
    Molière
    “A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
    Moliere

  • #8
    Ray Bradbury
    “We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.”
    Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • #10
    Heinrich Heine
    “There are more fools in the world than there are people.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #11
    Brother Andrew
    “I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?”
    Brother Andrew, The Narrow Road: Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #14
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #15
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #16
    Aldous Huxley
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #17
    G.K. Chesterton
    “It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #18
    Tony Reinke
    “Reading is a discipline, and all disciplines require self-discipline, and self-discipline is the one thing our sinful flesh will resist.”
    Tony Reinke, Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books

  • #19
    Richard de Bury
    “Esse amor estático tão fortemente nos tomou que, alheando ao espírito outras preocupações mundanas, só nos comove a paixão de adquirir livros.”
    Bury Richard De

  • #20
    Theodore Dalrymple
    “To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.”
    Theodore Dalrymple

  • #21
    Theodore Dalrymple
    “The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.”
    Theodore Dalrymple

  • #22
    Gordon H. Clark
    “A rapidez com que as teorias científicas do passado recente foram inventadas, aceitas e descartadas nos serve de alerta de que a ciência não é uma verdade fixa e absoluta.”
    Gordon Haddon Clark, William James e John Dewey

  • #23
    R.C. Sproul
    “As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.”
    R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith
    tags: faith

  • #24
    Douglas Wilson
    “Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.”
    Douglas Wilson, 5 Paths to the Love of Your Life: Defining Your Dating Style

  • #25
    Douglas Wilson
    “God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been”
    Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage: Gospel Living for Couples

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #27
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #28
    Douglas Wilson
    “Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.”
    Douglas Wilson, Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

  • #30
    Christopher Henry Dawson
    “The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the common way of life and that society as such has nothing to do with the truths of faith.”
    Christopher Henry Dawson, Religion and World History: A Selection from the Works of Christopher Dawson

  • #31
    Christopher Henry Dawson
    “Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.”
    Christopher Henry Dawson, Enquiries into Religion and Culture



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