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“Ignorance is never better than knowledge”
Source : Quoted in Laura Fermi Atoms in the Family (1954).
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“A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.”
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“Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.”
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“It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.”
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“I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.”
Source : Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
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“Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.”
Source : William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria
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“Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.”
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“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
Source : Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications
