An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.