Joshua Greene (1974) American psychologist
Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (2013), p. 170
“To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!”
— José Rizal, book Noli Me Tángere
The quote "To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!" is famous quote by José Rizal (1861–1896), Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist.
Source: Noli Me Tángere
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
"1901", p. 76. Sometimes misquoted as "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing". Sometimes misattributed to Bertrand Russell or Anatole France
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (1949), entry for 1901
Sometimes misquoted as "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
Sometimes misattributed to Anatole France
Note that Russell does say something similar in Marriage and Morals (1929): "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
Misattributed
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
William Law (1686–1761) English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), Ch. XII.
“Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.”
Edwin Lefèvre book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XIV, p. 172
