Thomas Reed Quotes

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad.

Ignorance and confidence is a lethal cocktail.

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

It's easy to be an educated fool.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.