A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

-- Martin Fischer, Unknown , born November 10, 1879

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

-- William Cowper, Conversation. Line 96., Unknown

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

A great oak is only a little nut that held its ground.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A half truth is a whole lie.

-- Yiddish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

-- Dutch proverb, Unknown , Unknown

A little folly now and then is cherished by the wisest men.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

-- Alexander Pope, Unknown , 1688-1744

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are portals of discovery.

-- James Joyce, Unknown , Unknown

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

-- Plutarch, Unknown , Unknown

A mind is a terrible thing to ugg.. I forgot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A modest little person with much to be modest about.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

A PBS mind in an MTV world.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

-- Anatole France, Unknown , Unknown

A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

-- Terry Carr, Unknown , Unknown

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

-- Alexander Cannon, Unknown , Unknown

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

-- Sir Richard Livingston, Unknown , Unknown

A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"-- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

-- Richard Rorty, Chronicle of Higher Education, pg A48, Feb. 9, 1996

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

-- Stephen Leacock, Unknown , born December 30,1869

All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.

-- Morris Raphael Cohen, attributed in Meehl, P. E. Appraising and amending theories. Psychological Inquiry, 1, p. 110., 1990

All too often we are stuffing the heads of the young with the products of earlier innovations rather than teaching them to be innovative. We treat their minds as storehouses to be filled rather than as instruments to be used.

-- Robert Finch, Secretary of HEW, Unknown , 1970

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

-- John Stuart Mill, Unknown , born May 20, 1806

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

-- Lena Horne, in interview, 1985

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

-- Harold Rosenberg, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

-- Benjamin Stolberg, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

-- Niels Bohr, Unknown , Unknown

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

-- Albert Camus, Unknown , Unknown

And if education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

-- Maria Montessori, Unknown , Unknown

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

-- Dale Carnegie, Unknown , Unknown

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

-- David Ogilvy, Unknown , Unknown

Any idiot can face a crisis--it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

-- Anton Chekhov, Unknown , Unknown

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.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

Any slower and he'd be in reverse.

-- Gignac, Unknown , Unknown

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

-- Bliss Perry, Unknown , Unknown

Anything more dull and commonplace it wouldn't be easy to reproduce.

-- The London Times, on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Unknown , Unknown

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

-- Voltaire, Unknown , Unknown

As long as I can remember, I've had amnesia.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

Be different--if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

-- Ed Koch, Unknown , 1996

Be prepared.

-- Boy Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is in the details.

-- German proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

-- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, Unknown

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

Better by far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be sad

-- Christina Rossetti, "Remember," Goblin Market, 1862

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

-- Mae West, Unknown , born August 17, 1892

By ignorance the truth is known.

-- Henry Suso, The Little Book of Truth, 1300-1365

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

-- Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato, Unknown

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

-- Garrison Keillor, Unknown , Unknown

Chance favors the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur, Unknown , Unknown

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

-- Pablo Picasso, Unknown , Unknown

Confusion not only reigns, it pours.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

-- William Allen White, Unknown , Unknown

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

-- Anna Freud, Unknown , Unknown

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 24l, 1995

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman’s substitute for conscience. It is the communicator’s substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

-- Russell Lynes, Unknown , Unknown

D'oh!

-- Homer Simpson, Matt Groening cartoon, Unknown

Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.

-- Roger Bannister, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're easier to handle than dumb mistakes.

-- Carolyn Coats, Things Your Mother Always Told you but You Didn't Want to Hear, 1994

Don't be stupid. We have world leaders for that.

-- bumper sticker, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be too stupid to be lazy.

-- West Indies proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

-- Howard Aiken., Unknown , Unknown

Don’t know much about history. Don’t know much biology. Don’t know science books. Don’t know about the French I took. But I do know I love you And I do know if you love me too, what a wonderful world this would be. Don’t know much about geography. Don’t know much trigonometry. Don’t know much about algebra. Don’t know what a slide ruler is for. But I do know one and one is two And if this one could be with you, what a wonderful world this would be. Now I don’t claim to be an A student. But I’m trying to be. Maybe by being an A student, baby, You’ll give your love to me.

-- Joel Landry, song "What a Wonderful World", Unknown

Education is understanding relationships.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

-- Marquis of Halifax, Unknown , Unknown

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

-- John Stuart Mill, Unknown , Unknown

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

-- G.M. Trevelyan, Unknown , Unknown

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

-- Neil Postman, The End of Education, Unknown

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

-- Jeremiah: 28, Unknown , Unknown

Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Even when all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

-- Bertrand (Arthur William) Russell), Unknown , born May 18, 1872

Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but going faster is a maniac?

-- George Carlin, Unknown , Unknown

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

-- John Mendoza, Unknown , Unknown

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

-- Edward Gibbon, Unknown , Unknown

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

-- Gertrude Stein, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

-- Erica Jong, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone is brilliant some of the time, and no one is that way all the time.

-- Kathleen Cushmes, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone is gifted. Some open the package sooner.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.

-- Irish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone[Everybody] is ignorant only on different subjects.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , 1706-1790

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

-- F. P. Jones, Unknown , Unknown

Failures are divided into 2 classes those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

-- John Charles Salak, Unknown , Unknown

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

-- J. Krishnamurti, On Education., Unknown

Foolishness is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence…. Intelligence has limits while foolishness has none.

-- Claude Chabrol, Unknown , born June 24, 1930

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

-- Ethel Barrymore, in George Jean nathan, (1953) The Theatre in the Fifties, lived 1879-1959

For every student with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

-- Milton Berle, Unknown , Unknown

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Unknown , bron November 13, 1850

Galinda was slow coming to terms with actual learning. She had considered her admission into Shiz University as a sort of testimony to her brilliance, and believed that she would adorn the halls of learning with her beauty and occasional clever sayings. She supposed, glumly, that she had meant to be a sort of living marble bust: This is Youthful Intelligence; admire Her. Isn't She lovely?

-- Gregory Maguire, Wicked, p. 75, NY: HarperCollins Pub., 1995

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

-- Thomas A. Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Genius is only a form of sustained patience.

-- Donald Murray, Unknown , Unknown

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

-- C.W. Ceran, Unknown , Unknown

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

God is in the details.

-- Mies Van Der Rohe, Unknown , Unknown

God must love stupid people, he made so many.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

-- John Updike, Unknown , Unknown

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

-- William Saroyan, Unknown , Unknown

Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

-- Joseph Conrad, Unknown , born December 3, 1857

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Half of being smart is knowing what you’re dumb at.

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical questions?

-- Geroge E. Bradley, print media column, "Ever Wonder?", Unknown

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

-- Abraham Lincoln., Unknown , Unknown

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

-- Robert Moses, Unknown , Unknown

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.

-- Bobby Bowden, Florida State footballer, on player Reggie Herring, Unknown , Unknown

He had just enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

-- P.G. Wodehouse, Barmy in Wonderland, Unknown

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

-- Aneurin Bevan, on Neville Chamberlain, Unknown , Unknown

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

-- Samuel Tuke, Adventures of Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3., ---- -1673

He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you -- he really is an idiot.

-- Groucho Marx, Unknown , 1895-1977

He must have been an incredibly good shot.

-- Noel Coward, On being told that someone had blown his brains out., Unknown , Unknown

He was not so much brain as earwax

-- William Shakespear's character, Thersites, Troilus and Cressida, Unknown

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees....The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

-- Paracelsus, Unknown , Unknown

He who laughs last thinks slowest!

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and ther's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

How Important Are You? More than you think. A rooster minus a hen equals no baby chicks. Kellogg minus a farmer equals no corn flakes. If the nail factory closes what good is the hammer factory? Paderewski’s genius wouldn’t have amounted to much if the piano tuner hadn’t shown up. A cracker maker will do better if there’s a cheesemaker. The most skillful surgeon needs the ambulance driver who delivers the patient. Just as Rodgers needed Hammerstein you need someone and someone needs you.

-- From Wall Street Journal, Unknown , Unknown

I am never afraid of what I know.

-- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

-- John Cage, Unknown , Unknown

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

-- Jackie Robinson, "This I believe" National Public Radio series, c1951

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

-- Benjamin Barber, Unknown , Unknown

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

-- Lisa Alther, Unknown , Unknown

I have always been amoung those who believe that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

-- Whitfield Diffie., Unknown , Unknown

I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.

-- Edgar Allan Poe, Unknown , Unknown

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

-- Harold Macmillan, Unknown , Unknown

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I know a lot of people think I’m dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool.

-- Leon Spinks, LA Times, 19 78, June 28

I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility and dignity but for my fool.

-- Dr Theodore I Rubin, Love Me, Love My Fool, McKay, 1976

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, --light, shade, perspective will always make it beautiful.

-- John Constable, Unknown , Unknown

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

-- Alexandre Dumas, Unknown , Unknown

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

I think the world is run by C students.

-- Al McGuire, Unknown , Unknown

I took an IQ test and the results were negative.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know.'

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , November 30, 1835

I watched "Titanic" when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew then that my IQ had been damaged.

-- Stephen King, Unknown , Unknown

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

-- Gene Perret, Unknown , Unknown

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

-- Bill Ayers, Unknown , Unknown

I wish there was some way to turn down the stupidity on tv. There's a knob called 'brightness,' but that doesn't work.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I wonder whether if I had had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.

-- Alice James, The Diary of Alice James, Unknown

I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

-- Lilly Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

-- J. Harlen Bretz., Unknown , Unknown

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, you have two choices - try again or read the instructions.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , born August 28, 1749

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

-- Paris Hilton, when introduced to author Joan Collins, Unknown

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

-- Hal Abelson, Unknown , Unknown

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

-- Isaac Newton, Unknown , Unknown

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

-- Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Unknown , Unknown

If the brain were simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to understand it.

-- Ken Hill, Unknown , Unknown

If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

-- Sarah M. Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, 1838

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

-- Stanley Kubrick, Unknown , born July 26, 1928

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

-- Derek Bok, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Ignorance is salvageable but stupid is forever.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Ignorance never settles a question.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Imagination is more powerful even than knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!

-- Terence, Act ii. Sc. 2, 1. (232.), Unknown

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

In California you lose a point off your IQ every year.

-- Truman Capote, 1924-1984, born September 30, 1924

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

-- Brian K. Reid, Unknown , Unknown

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

-- Napolean Bonaparte, Unknown , Unknown

In reality, serendipity accounts for 1 percent of the blessings we receive in life, work, and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

-- Peter McWilliams, Unknown , Unknown

In seeking knowledge, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, and the fifth--teaching others

-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Unknown , Unknown

In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made school boards.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

-- Gerald Holton, Unknown , Unknown

Inside every C+ student is a B- student trying to get out.

-- Art Peterson, Unknown , Unknown

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

-- Jean Piaget, Unknown , 1896-1980

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

-- Susan Sontag, Evergreen Review, December 1964.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

-- Andrew W. Mathis, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to know nothing than to learn nothing.

-- Hebrew Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to know some of the questions than all the answers.

-- J. Thurber, Unknown , Unknown

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Unknown , Unknown

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

-- Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape -- not from our own time, for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our own time.

-- T. S. Eliot, Unknown , 1888-1965

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

-- Blaise Pascal, Unknown , born June 19, 1623

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

-- Descartes, Unknown , Unknown

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

-- Caron deBeaumarchais, Unknown , Unknown

It is not the IQ but the I Will that is most important in education.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

-- C.W. Leadbeater, Unknown , Unknown

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

It isn't what you know but the simple things you don't overlook.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Unknown , Unknown

It's a fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of IQ for every year.

-- Truman Capote, Unknown , Unknown

It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.

-- Jean Nidetch, Unknown , Unknown

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example. "Robert doesn't get C's and D's does he?" asked his father. "No," Junior admitted, "but he's different. He has very bright parents."

-- Jacob M. Braude, Unknown , Unknown

Know thyself.

-- Thales, Unknown , Unknown

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

-- Johann Wolfgan von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is power--especially if you know about the right people.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is power.

-- Hobbs or Sir Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

-- C.G. Jung, Unknown , Unknown

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences…Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

-- Anne Sullivan, Unknown , Unknown

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

-- John Ray, Unknown , Unknown

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

-- Evan Esar, Unknown , Unknown

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

-- Publius Syrus, Maxim 914, Unknown

Let schoolmasters puzzle the brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good Liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

-- Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, Unknown

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

-- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Unknown

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , 1835-1910

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

-- James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1817

Light travels faster than sound--isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?

-- Steven Wright, Unknown , Unknown

Little things affect little minds.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

-- Samuel Butler, Unknown , Unknown

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

-- Joseph Wood Krutch, Unknown , born November 25, 1893

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human understanding.

-- Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , born June 24, 1842

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

-- Cyril Connolly, Unknown , born September 10, 1903

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , born September 12, 1880

Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.

-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Unknown

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.

-- Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, "News Item" (1926) in Not So Deep as a Well (1937), Unknown

Mind like a steel trap - rusty and illegal in most states.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

-- James Harvey Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed.

-- Anne Sullivan, Unknown , Unknown

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

-- Helen Gurley Brown, Unknown , b. 1922

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

-- Nick Diamos, Unknown , Unknown

No man but a blockhead, ever wrote, except for money.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.

-- Jascha Heifetz., Unknown , Unknown

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.

-- Anna Pavlova, Unknown , Unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story, 1937

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it: "Nam non solum scire aliquid artis est, sed quaedam ars etiam docendi."

-- Cicero, DeLegibus, Unknown

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is quite common. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and Determination alone are the all-powerful elements.

-- Adapted by ? From a quote by Calvin Coolidge, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

-- G. C. Lichtenberg, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

-- Elsa Maxwell, `, 1883-1963

On Artificial Intelligence: The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

-- Claude Debussy, Unknown , Unknown

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

-- Blaise Pascal, Unknown , Unknown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 20., 1995

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorism, 1905

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

-- N.D. Hillis, Unknown , Unknown

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been 80 years at it, and have not reached my goal.

-- Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

-- Maya Angelou, Unknown , Unknown

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , born 1872

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

-- André Maurois, News summaries, 1950, January 30

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot...This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existence we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

-- Stephen Fry, Preface for "The Book of General Ignorance" by Lloyd & Mitchinson, 2006

Philosophical habits of mind do not come quicker through fiber optics. Clear thinking is not aided by better dot resolution. Understanding ourselves and feeling for others does not come with a software upgrade.

-- Linda Ray Pratt, Unknown , Unknown

Please provide the date of your death.

-- from an IRS letter, Unknown , Unknown

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

-- John Maynard Keynes, Unknown , born June 5, 1883

Practice random acts of intelligence & senseless acts of self-control.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Remember half the people you know are below average.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Remember, any jackass can kick over the barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

-- Tip O'Neil quoting Sam Rayburn, former Speaker of the House, Unknown , Unknown

Rules and models destroy genius and art

-- William Hazlitt, "On Taste", 1778-1830

Said the Wizard of Oz to the scarecrow, "I can't give you brains but I can give you a diploma."

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Science, engineering, technology. All worthless unless they make you feel something.

-- BMW ad, Brill's Content, p. 16, 1998, November

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be.