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- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
- Doug Larson
- Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
- Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
- John H. Patterson
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