# Quote — Charles Sheffield, The Mind Pool

> In the old words of wisdom, you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, and that’s usually enough to get by.

- Author: [Charles Sheffield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield.md)
- Book: [The Mind Pool](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool.md)
- Page: 83
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Sheffield#The_Mind_Pool_(1993)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool/in-the-old

## More from this book

> I find that prayers don’t work when you need them most. Unless you answer them for yourself.

p. 259 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool/i-find-that.md)

> In any civilized society, it is the individual or group who creates a problem that must have responsibility for solving it.

p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool/in-any-civilized.md)

> We both know that actions taken from internal conviction are far better motivated than any external commands.

p. 292 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool/we-both-know.md)