"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein
"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools, because they have to say something."
- Plato
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing."
- Bertrand Russell
"Never underestimate stupid people in large groups."
- Unknown
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know."
- Lao Tzu
550 B.C.-?
"Knowledge is useless unless you can apply it."
- Unknown
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."
- Mary Ellen Kelly
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
- Balthasar Gracian
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
- Segal's Law
and one of my favorite which was proven more times than I care to recall:
"Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend."
- Saadi
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