15 Smartest Quotes Ever
Ok, so Kerri Lee posted her 15 stupid celebrity quotes (and there were some gems in there), so I thought an answer column was in order. Here are some of the smartest things people have ever said. If you’ve got any good ones, post ‘em below.
“Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.” -Burt Bacharach
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
-Bertrand Russell
“Never get into fights with ugly people because they have nothing to lose.” -Anonymous
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, is “What does a woman want?” -Sigmund Freud
“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get 8 cats to pull a sled through snow.” -Jeff Valdez
“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” -Orson Welles, in The Third Man
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” -Steven Wright
“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” -Thomas Jefferson
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -George Bernard Shaw
“It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all of the others that have been tried.” -Winston Churchill
“It’s better to be wanted for murder than not wanted at all.” -Marty Winch
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” -Pablo Picasso
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” -Ben Franklin
“And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.” -Socrates
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Comment by Mike on 15 May 2008:
The Orson Welles quote is certainly funny, but it’s not terribly smart. The cuckoo clock was invented in Germany, not Switzerland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man#The_cuckoo_clock_speech
One of my personal favorites is another one that’s attributed to Benjamin Franklin: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Comment by Chris B on 15 May 2008:
In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
Diego Marchi
Comment by Chris B on 15 May 2008:
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Comment by Chris B on 15 May 2008:
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
- Oscar Wilde
Comment by crazy on 16 May 2008:
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order, to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order, to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
Confucius
Comment by crazy on 16 May 2008:
I’d rather regret the things I have done, than the things I have not.
Lucille Ball
Comment by Mark Anthony on 1 July 2008:
If the nature of our planet in all its harmonic complexity is such that all processes and ecosystems conform in equilibrium as a simple course of functionality. Why is it that our species out of all are able to defy this inherently natural law of the universe with a single conscious choice?