Everything – Page 157 – A book of aphorisms
Jan 122018
 

No complicated idea has ever had much influence in the world.

Jan 102018
 

What you call hypocrisy I call hedging against the possibility that one’s beliefs are in error.

Jan 092018
 

The cheap stuff is far more agreeable than the idea of buying it.

Jan 082018
 

It seems increasingly doubtful that class participation should ever have been encouraged.

Jan 052018
 

I would gladly trade a bit more bullying for a lot less tattling.

Jan 042018
 

It is humble to side with science, and abject to side with history.

Jan 032018
 

No child aspires to become employable when he grows up.

Jan 022018
 

Most of what we are told is better than nothing is in fact far worse.

Jan 012018
 

We admire success, and deplore most of the qualities and behavior that produce it.