#fools

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. ↗

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. ↗

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ↗

— John Muir

#cannot #cared #disease #drought #floods

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#far #fools #master #more #other

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. ↗

— Jean Paul

#around #beauty #been #flies #fools

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#church #condition #delight #fools #into

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#complexity #fools #geniuses #ignore #pragmatists

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#faith #fools #friends #great #great faith

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. ↗