ON THE WISE AND OTHERWISE

ON THE WISE AND OTHERWISE

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

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.- Mark Twain

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.- Plato

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.- Baltasar Gracian

The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.- Charles Caleb Colton

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.- Cullen Hightower

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.- Arthur Schopenhauer

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage-- to move in the opposite direction.- E. F. Schumacher

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.- Don Herold

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.- Friedrich von Schiller

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.- Jane Wagner

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.- Sir Winston Churchill

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.- Anatole France

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.- G. K. Chesterton

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks tothe Internet, we know that is not true.- Robert Wilensky

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.- Albert Einstein

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.- C. S. Lewis

We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.- Samuel McChord Crothers

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.- Aesop

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.- Frank Leahy

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.Robert Half