thehowe_v7.1

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a lot of explanations.

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

He must be very ignorant, for he answers every question he is asked.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

When I think on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just standing still?

The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for it or anything, but why don't we just take the safety labels off everything and let the problem solve itself?

Electricity comes from electrons; morality comes from morons.

You see boys and girls, ignorance is bliss - until a stone hatches into a black hole, that is.

Those you encounter online are, almost as a rule, complete and utter cockmongers.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.

There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of Inquisitive Idiots.

Being miserable doesn't make you better than anyone, House. It just makes you miserable.