Charlie Munger Quotes

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but it is what it is and I can't change the past. And I can apologize to my family and my friends and my colleagues and the people.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.