Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad. (Salvador Dali)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)