"I am coming to the belief that a large percentage of the world's problems are caused by people who don't have impostor syndrome, but REALLY, REALLY should." -Mike Masnick
"I doubt, therefore I think." - Hollis Seamon
"When I cop to being wrong, it's almost like revealing a superpower, because so few can do it." - Neil Steinberg
"I have always figured I can bluff my way into wisdom." -Michael Cunningham
"I have learned from my mistakes and I am sure I could repeat them exactly." - Peter Cook
"I have given you an argument, sir, I am not also obligated to give you an understanding." – Samuel Johnson
“Butter can be clarified; stupid can't.” -Michael Mallory
“It's human nature to want to know things, and also human nature to think they're not very interesting when you find out."- Cecil Adams
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” – Charles Darwin
“With hindsight, we’d all be heroes.” - Marilyn Todd
“The spirit of curiosity generates confusion.” Pope Francis
“Good sense has a nasty aftertaste.” - Andrei Rubanov
“Four out of five reviewers agree that one out of five doesn’t know anything.” –Andrew Ratshin.
“Digression is the soul of wit.” - Ray Bradbury
“Where there’s an idiot there’s a way.” -Paul Bishop
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -Clay Shirky
"There's doubt for those with evidence and faith for those with none." -Michael Smith
"In an era of circuses, the one with the most clowns wins." -Richard Kadrey
"There is probably no more gullible group in the world than the scientists of today, according to the scientists of tomorrow." -Robert Benchley
"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth." -Bill Bryson
"When in doubt, doubt." -John R. Henderson
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"My problems start where the smarter bears and the dumber visitors intersect" -Steve Thompson, Yosemite Park official
"He's got muscles in his head he's never even used." -John Prine
"Let me think about that. Ouch!" -Susan Weiner
"Here I was, swimming in paperwork with my hands tied, and out on the street were jerks on parade: unassuming, pleasant, perfectly normal people except that they had an extra bone in their head and less moral sense than God gave badgers." -Garrison Keiller
"You can't fix stupid." -saying of the St. Louis Fire Department
"So many people know the answers before they know the questions." -Judge Thomas Burke, "the man who built Seattle."
"Puddingheads should never grant premises." -Herman Melville
"While the heritability of intelligence is a matter of scientific controversy, stupidity comes down in an unbroken line." -William DeAndrea
"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." -A.W. Griswold
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late." -Justice Felix Frankfurter
"Any man can learn to learn from the wise, once he can find them, but learn to learn from a fool and the whole world's your faculty. -John Ciardi
"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." -Bob Seger
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