When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really are. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. Scott Fitzgerald Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.