Top 29 Quotes About Simpletons
#2. It is the left that uses the clubs of race and class to attack those on the right; it is the left that labels religious people and traditional values people rubes and simpletons,
Ben Shapiro
#3. There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#4. Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they'll be dead! Simpletons! Let's go! This ought to show 'em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#5. Her father had always said a person could tell much about a man by the way he dealt with animals, simpletons, and children.
-Adara's thoughts
Kinley MacGregor
#6. Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.
Allan Dare Pearce
#7. Our species will never run out of fools but I dare say that there have been at least as many credulous idiots who professed faith in god as there have been dolts and simpletons who concluded otherwise.
Christopher Hitchens
#8. How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at ... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.
Michelangelo
#9. For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore De Balzac
#11. In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
Tennessee Williams
#12. When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.
David Horsey
#13. Yes, cower! If you simpletons truly understood what you have just seen, you would be down on your knees worshipping me! HA! HA HA HA HA HA!
Richard Roberts
#14. It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
Joel Salatin
#15. He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily Grossman
#16. Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
Thucydides
#17. The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
Marquis De Sade
#18. As he talked a good deal, had seen active service, and was naturally regarded as a man of energy and spirit, he was much sought after and listened to by simpletons.
Emile Zola
#19. The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to laugh at the consequences.
Marquis De Sade
#20. Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.
Honore De Balzac
#21. I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.
Kristen Stewart
#22. We've all been influenced by other people ... If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.
Mariah Carey
#24. Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.
Michael Josephson
#25. It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#26. Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all ... We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us
even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.
Fulton J. Sheen
#27. Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
J.G. Holland
#28. After all this time, after the world fell to ashes and the devil came out to play, she kept something that was wholly mine.
Christina Escamilla
#29. But Ignatian spirituality is so capacious that even an introduction will touch upon a broad spectrum of topics: making good choices, finding meaningful work, being a good friend, living simply, wondering about suffering, deepening your prayer, striving to be a better person, and learning to love.
James Martin
