Sherpop

“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

“the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.”
― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov