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Comment# · Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in
Science and Religion and
Success and Failure
Comment# · Fair (151 ratings) · submitted 1999
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
Comment# · Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Comment# · Fair (144 ratings) · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
Comment# · Fair (740 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in
Science and Religion and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Comment# · Fair (16 ratings) · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Comment# · Fair (808 ratings) · submitted 1997 by
David Epstein (updated 1998)
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
Comment# · Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
Comment# · Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
Comment# · Fair (2730 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Comment# · Fair (215 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in
War and Peace
Comment# · Fair (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
Comment# · Fair (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Comment# · Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in
Work and Recreation
