Anonymous
Know her mind and you can have her body, know her heart and you have her soul.
Anonymous
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
The Doctor, Timewyrm: Genesys, author, John Peel
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Earl of Chesterfield
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Engineer's Motto
We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.
English Proverb
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
Edward Flaherty
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Henry Huxley
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Henry Huxley
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
Stanislaw J. Lec
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses.
Bonnie Lin
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Know thyself.
Linnaeus
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Konrad Lorenz
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Michael Garrett Marino
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Judith Martin, "Miss Manners" columnist and author
We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbilt
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton, Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii.
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Pogo, character in "Pogo," comic strip by Walt Kelly
Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.
Pogo, character in "Pogo," comic strip by Walt Kelly
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Lady Stella Reading
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
Johnathan Swift
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?
Gwynn Thomas
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
