Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Saving money is for fools. The wise achieve the very same or even better result by simply not wasting money.

It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.

The biggest problem with democracy is that the weight of a vote is not determined by the degree of the voter’s intelligence, ignorance, or stupidity.

All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.

Some things do not make sense, not in themselves, but to some people.

Our books can know and remember for us, but cannot think for us.

Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.

Education is guaranteed to mitigate ignorance, not to eradicate stupidity.