Everything – Page 200 – A book of aphorisms
May 182016
 

Serious people trying to be funny are generally no more embarrassing than funny people trying to be serious.

May 172016
 

The worst example is the unique success.

May 162016
 

The Four Irrational Beliefs of Highly Effective People

1. Optimism
2. Control
3. Forecasting ability
4. All-around superiority

May 132016
 

Some say that men are not gods, others that men are not beasts, both with more hope than expectation.

May 122016
 

What is called stupidity is often only intelligence gone horribly wrong.

May 112016
 

If a majority rejects democracy, in what does democracy consist?

May 092016
 

Occam’s Razor doesn’t mean what’s simplest must be true;
It means that we are stupid and it’s the best that we can do.

May 062016
 

Write what you know that’s not yourself.

May 052016
 

An accurate thinker is right: a fertile one is interesting when wrong.