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

 

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

- William James

 

A man wrapped up in himself makes a small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin

 

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the others that need the advice. - Bill Cosby

 

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

- Laurence J. Peter

 

Anyone can admit they were wrong; the true test is admitting it to someone else.

 

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

 

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. - Dan McKinnon

 

Be thankful for problems or idiots would have your job.

 

Brain ... the apparatus with which we think that we think.

 

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. - Lord Raglan

 

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own.

You may both be wrong. - Dandemis

 

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with,

that it's compounding a felony. - Robert Benchley

 

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

 

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. - Miguel de Cervantes

 

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

 

Flattery is all right, if you don't inhale.

 

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and

how little we think of the other person. - Mark Twain

 

He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about. - Winston Churchill

 

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

- Franklin P. Jones

 

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli

 

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln

 

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens,

how incapable must man be of learning from experience. - George Bernard Shaw

 

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble,

you wouldn't sit for a month. - Theodore Roosevelt

 

If you're arguing with an idiot make sure he isn't doing the same thing.

 

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

- Mark Twain

 

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

 

It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.

 

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English --

up to fifty words used in correct context --

no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan

 

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

- John Andrew Holmes

 

It takes only ten minutes to find in others the faults we often fail to discover in a lifetime.

 

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

- Malcolm Forbes

 

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard

 

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

 

Manly's Maxim: Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

 

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but want a different one.

 

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused then educated. - Robert C. Savage

 

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper

when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde

 

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. - Franklin P. Jones

 

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

- Soren Kierkegaard

 

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request,

 for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. - Brendan Francis

 

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. - Marcel Proust

 

Prejudice is being down on what we are not up on.

 

Quite often when a man thinks his mind is getting broader it is only his conscience stretching.

 

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action,

where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes

 

The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni

 

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis

 

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. - Mark Twain

 

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

 

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle

 

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

- Mark Twain

 

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

- Thomas Fuller

 

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner

 

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom:

he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so;

but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Francis Bacon

 

There's no secret about success.

Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

- Kim Hubbard

 

There's no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry Adams

 

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

 

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy

 

We're the only species that can alter our future on purpose

and we're not doing a very good job of it.

 

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

When a person has a pet peeve it's remarkable how often they pet it.

 

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people

will be disappointed to discover they are not it. - Bernard Bailey

 

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything?

If it works as well as prohibition did,

in five years we would be the smartest race of people on earth. - Will Rogers

 

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry

 

You will care much less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.

- Oscar Wilde

 

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