"The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity."

-- Konrad Adenauer

#Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.”
“We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.”
“Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.”

Source : "Elements of the system dynamics method". Book by Jorgen Randers, p. 27, 1980.
“I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.”
“Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.”

Source : Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, 1970.
“When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.”
“People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “The Circular Staircase: Mystery & Detective Collections”, p.35, 谷月社
“I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.”

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