Everything – Page 215 – A book of aphorisms
Oct 202015
 

The shortest way to make a million dollars is to start with a hundred million; and so it is with education.

Oct 192015
 

All disputes over process are in fact over policy.

Oct 162015
 

To discover the most appalling ignorance of science one need only canvass its most vociferous defenders.

Oct 152015
 

Cynics don’t write. To print one’s words, expecting others to heed or even read them, is an act of preposterous faith in human nature.

Oct 142015
 

The cure for whoring after the new is to learn how old it is.

Oct 132015
 

We say that we don’t understand, not humbly, but petulantly, to fault the speaker for pretension, or obscurity, or knowledge of the subject.

Oct 092015
 

It is odd that there is so much talk of genius, when geniuses deny that it exists, and the rest of us wouldn’t know.