"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
(Anatole France)

"If you believe everything you read, you better not read."
(Japanese Proverb)

"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away
unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for."
(Paul Lutus)

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just
ain't so."
(Mark Twain)

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all
doubt."
(Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65)

"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so."
(Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970)

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
(Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910)

"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
(Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the
former." (Albert Einstein)

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
(Albert Einstein)