Knowledge/Wisdom

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

-- Dorothy Parker

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

-- Pogo, character in "Pogo," comic strip by Walt Kelly

Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.

-- Pogo, character in "Pogo," comic strip by Walt Kelly

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

-- Lady Stella Reading

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

-- Bertrand Russell

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

-- Carl Sagan

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

-- George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

-- George Bernard Shaw

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

-- Gertrude Stein

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.

-- Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

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