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Post by Smithee on Apr 12, 2013 22:48:19 GMT 10
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Not so much that. Remember the recent quote about being too clever by half? They are too dumb to believe being smart is a good thing.
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 29, 2013 8:20:50 GMT 10
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant
Amos Bronson Alcott (Born this day 1799)
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The more I learn the less I know
George Harrison (Died this day 2001)
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2013 6:39:27 GMT 10
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide
Samuel Butler (Born this day 1835)
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 6, 2013 6:58:06 GMT 10
Because the ignorant do not know themselves, they never know for what they are lacking. Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already Baltasar Gracián (Died this day 1658)
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 7, 2013 6:06:47 GMT 10
It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know — the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything
Joyce Cary (Born this day 1888)
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 10, 2013 7:30:00 GMT 10
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray
Algernon Blackwood, CBE (Died this day 1951)
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2013 11:49:39 GMT 10
If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem
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People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't
Bjarne Stroustrup (Born this day 1950)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:29:28 GMT 10
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them
Laurence J Peter (Died this day 1990)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 20, 2014 8:05:37 GMT 10
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance
John Ruskin (Died this day 1900)
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The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them
Bill Maher (Born this day 1956)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 12, 2014 8:08:14 GMT 10
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