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

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

-- Lyndon Johnson, 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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

-- Henry Ford, 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

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

-- Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Unknown , Unknown

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

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

-- George Bernard Shaw, 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.

-- James P. Hogan, Code of the Lifemaker, Unknown

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Since we are all likely to go astray the reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

-- Sophocles, Unknown , Unknown

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

-- Gracie Allen, Unknown , Unknown

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

-- E. C. McKenzie, Unknown , Unknown

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

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

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

-- Lord Byron, Unknown , Unknown

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

-- Scott Simon on the 1990 massacre of 8,000 over the course of 2 days that was watched by world governments via satellite and radio, commentary, National Public Radio Weekend Edition, June 16, 2005

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it well and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.

-- Carlos Urbizo, Unknown , Unknown

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Stupid, stupider, stupidest, how stupid can it be? But when I really thought about it, the stupid one was me!

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Systems die; instincts remain.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

-- Mary Shelley, in Matthew Arnold (1888) Essays in Criticism Second Series, 1797-1851

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

-- Doris Lessing, Unknown , Unknown

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. [With reference to the Algonquin "Round Table"]

-- Groucho Marx., Unknown , Unknown

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV--more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

-- Shook, M. & Shook, R., The Book of Odds, 1991

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

-- Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

-- Stephen Brookfield, Unknown , Unknown

The boy had just learned to plough with the family mule. He was in the field yelling out orders and trying to show his new skill. Finally his father stopped him and said, "How long have you been plowing?" "At least a couple of days," the young boy replied. "And how long has the mule been plowing?" the father asked. "At least fifteen years," the boy replied. "Don't you think you would be wise just to follow the mule."

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

-- Alfred Adler, Unknown , Unknown

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

-- Robert M. Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

The color of truth is gray.

-- Andre' Gide, Unknown , Unknown

The computer is a moron.

-- Peter Drucker, Unknown , Unknown

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

-- Ellen Parr, Unknown , Unknown

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

-- Charles F. Kettering, Unknown , born August 29, 1876

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., Unknown , Unknown

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

-- Kin Hubbard, Unknown , Unknown

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

-- Herbert (Victor) Prochnow, Sr., Unknown , born May 18, 1897

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

-- William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Unknown

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a nation. If we were to have another contest in the near future, of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason's or Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

-- Ulysses S. Grant, Unknown , Unknown

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

The function of wisdom is discriminating between good and evil

-- Cicero, Unknown , Unknown

The geek shall inherit the earth.

-- E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for the Internet Age, Unknown

The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

-- Winston Churchill, Sir, Unknown , 1874-1965

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

The heart is as important as the head in learning

-- K. Patricia Cross, Motivation: Er...Will That Be on the Test?, The Cross Papers, Number 5,, 2001, February

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

-- Goethe, Unknown , 1749-1832

The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin….

-- Frederick Douglass, 1849, Unknown

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

-- J. Arthur Thomson, Unknown , Unknown

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

-- Jay Leno, Unknown , Unknown

The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

-- John Locke, Unknown , 1693

The only genius with an IQ of 60.

-- Gore Vidal, on Andy Warhol, Unknown , Unknown

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792

The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

-- Mortimer Adler, Unknown , Unknown

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

-- Pat Cross, Unknown , Unknown

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

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

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

-- Lorraine Hansberry, Unknown , Unknown

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

-- A. A. Milne, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

-- Alexander Calder, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , Unknown

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

-- Linus Pauling, Unknown , Unknown

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, -- a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses…

-- Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood, 1889

The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

-- Joe Theisman, Unknown , Unknown

The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

-- Roger B. Smith, Unknown , 1982

The worst kind of poverty is ignorance.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

There are no limits to the power of the human mind to construct new meaning from experience.

-- Novak and Gowin, Unknown , 1984

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict - their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

There are only two things that are infinite: the universe and stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

There is no problem, however trivial, that by strict application of accepted methods of pedagogy cannot be rendered completely incapable of solution.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

-- Thomas Bailey, Unknown , Unknown

There's an idea going about that the human race basically understands how the universe works. Not you and me, obviously, but scientists perhaps, or experts. Regrettably, this is not the case. In the words of Thomas Edison, the man who didn't invent the lightbulb, "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."

-- John Lloyd, Introduction to "The Book of General Ignorance", 2006

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

-- Smokey Robinson, song, Unknown

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

-- Thomas Reed, Speaker of the House, on congressmen, Unknown , Unknown

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

-- Thomas Brackett Reed, Unknown , Unknown

They show you how detergents take out bloodstains... I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe your laundry isn't your biggest problem.

-- Jerry Seinfeld, Unknown , Unknown

They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class--or if you throw up at lunch.

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

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

This must be an era when the soul catches up with the brain, when soul directs science, when motives master machines, when how men feel becomes as important as what men know.

-- Rev. Louis Hadley Evans, Unknown , 1952

This world belongs to the man who is wise enough to change his mind in the presence of facts.

-- Roy L. Smith, Unknown , Unknown

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

-- Plato, Unknown , Unknown

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

-- Lord Byron, Unknown , Unknown

Those whom the gods would destroy they first call "promising."

-- Jan Carew, Unknown , Unknown

Tis better to be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

-- Arnold Toynbee, Unknown , Unknown

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

-- Gustave Flaubert, Unknown , Unknown

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

To generalize is to be an idiot.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

-- Roby James, Commencement, p. 172,, Unknown

To see what is in front of one's nose requires constant struggle.

-- George Orwell, Unknown , Unknown

To teachers, students are the end products, -- all else is a means. Hence there is but one interpretation of high standards in teaching: standards are highest where the maximum number of students-- slow learners and fast learners alike-- develop to their maximal capacity.

-- Joseph Seidlin, Unknown , Unknown

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

Truth fears no questions.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses.

-- Bonnie Lin, Unknown , Unknown

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Unknown , Unknown

We don't blame the student who can't see the chalkboard; why then do we blame the student who can't see the point?

-- Nicola Simmons, Unknown , Unknown

We have enough Youth, how about a fountain of Smart?

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

-- Daniel Boorstin, Unknown , Unknown

We ought to hear at least one little song every day, read a good poem, see a first-rate painting, and if possible speak a few sensible words.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , (1749-1832)

Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

-- Greg Camp of the music group Smash Mouth, song, 'All Star', 1999

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

-- Dan Quayle, Unknown , Unknown

What gets measured, gets managed.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.

-- Mirra Komarovsky, Unknown , Unknown

What lies before us and what lies beyond us is tiny compared to what lies within us.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

-- Oscar Levant, Unknown , born December 27, 1906

What we do not call education is more precious than which we call so.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Unknown , Unknown

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

-- Susan L. Taylor, Unknown , Unknown

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel, Unknown , 1907-1972

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

-- Cynthia Heimel, "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics" in Village Voice, Unknown

When times are calm, reflect. When times are difficult, be brave.

-- Korean Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

-- J. Lubbock, Unknown , Unknown

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

-- David Letterman, Unknown , Unknown

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

-- Professor Irwin Corey to a heckler, Unknown , Unknown

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

-- Dr. John Donne, The Triple Fool., Unknown

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow learner.

-- Lynda Montgomery, Unknown , Unknown

Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

-- Dr. Samuel Johnson, on Thomas Sheridan, English critic and poet., Unknown , Unknown

Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

-- William Wordsworth, Unknown , Unknown

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things that differ, and the difference between things which are alike.

-- Madame de Stael, De L'allemagne, 1813

Wit is educated insolence.

-- Aristotle, Rhetoric II, 384-322 B.C.

Worrying about seat time is worrying about the wrong end of the student.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

You can ask a question and look stupid, or not ask a question and be stupid.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, "My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"

-- Dave Barry, Unknown , Unknown

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

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

You're smart when you know the answer. You're wise when you know you do not.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, November 1, Unknown

You've got to remember that common sense is not factored into the intelligence quotient.

-- Greg Gabriel, Altadena Search & Rescue leader, Newsweek, after saving 24 Caltech students trapped on Mount Wilson in tutus, capes, etc as part of hazing., Feb 13, 2006

Your kid may be an honors student, but you're still an idiot.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

…I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.

-- Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, Constant Reader, 1970

…Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

-- 1 Corinthians 8:1-2, Unknown , Unknown

‘Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

-- Alexander pope, Unknown , 1688-1744