| Laurence J. Peter |
| Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. |
|
|
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. |
|
|
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. |
|
|
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. |
|
|
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. |
|
|
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. |
|
|
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. |
|
|
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. |
|
|
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. |
|
|
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? |
|
|
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. |
|
|
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. |
|
|
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. |
|
|
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. |
|
|
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. |
|
|
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. |
|
|
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. |
|
|
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. |
|
|
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. |
|
|
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one. |
|
|
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. |
|
|
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. |
|
|
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. |
|
||||||
|
Follow Us |
||||||
