The only function of economic
forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Historians are like deaf people who go
on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
Humanity is acquiring all the right
technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller
A complex system that works is
invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
John Gaule
To have a right to do a thing is not at
all the same as to be right in doing it.
GK Chesterton
The truth does not change according to
our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor
2 is not equal to 3, not even for large
values of 2.
Grabel's Law
Education has produced a vast
population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
A university is what a college becomes
when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
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