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

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
William James (1842-1910)

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right"
Thomas Paine - Common Sense

"A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak."
Michael Garrett Marino

"A prudent question is one half of wisdom."
Francis Bacon

"A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!"
William Wordsworth

"A wise man's question contains half the answer."
Solomon Ibn Gabriel

" Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."
Chesterfield, Lord

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

" Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot."
Anonymous

" Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Cat's Cradle

"Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility."
Samuel Johnson

"Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"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

[OMNISCIENT NOTE: Okay, First off. Columbus was hardly a genius. He stumbled upon the "new world" (possibly while drunk) in search of a passage to India. And people laughed at the Wright brothers (Not to say they weren't geniuses or potential geniues) because they built ridiculous looking contraptions that rose into the air and crashed almost immediately. Considering what dry humor people may have had in those days, watching people crash was a stimulant source of entertainment. AND Who are "They"? Huh? I've never seen anyone laugh at Bozo the Clown! Carl Sagan, it's pretty safe to say "you're the Bozo" for having even thought of such a moronic quote.]

"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
Henri-Frederic Amiel

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."
Konrad Lorenz

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)