"There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly."

--

Source : 1925 Polyglots, ch.7.

William Gerhardie

#Training Quotes #Fool Quotes #You Like It Quotes

“Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!”
“We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.”
“Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.”
“The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people”
“The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.”
“There is no shame in black beauty.”
“We suffer from a repression of the sublime.”
“Itâ€™s not easy to get rid of unwanted things.”

You may also like:

Evelyn Waugh
Writer
Joseph Heller
Novelist
Margaret Barber
Writer
Maurice Baring
Dramatist
Ronald Firbank
Novelist
Simon Raven
Novelist
William Boyd
Novelist
Michael Holroyd
Biographer
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky
Historian