Quick Quotes Weekly | The Entirely Uneducated Edition

Every day, I steal (I mean share… yeah!  Share!) my favorite quotes and passages from my weekly reading (and now Pinterest visits… oh the shame…) over at SmarterThanIAm.com.  To spice things up, I plan to share my favorites here each week, all year long!  Be sure to click the links and read the full posts, these are smart people saying really smart things.


The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

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True knowl­edge comes slowly and labo­ri­ously. It has noth­ing to do with mak­ing your­self avail­able to vast amounts of infor­ma­tion. It has every­thing to do with dis­cern­ing the best infor­ma­tion and reflect­ing deeply upon it, putting it into prac­tice if applic­a­ble and refin­ing it through expe­ri­ence.

J. D. Bentley <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!


Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. - Salvador Dali

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

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It is pos­si­ble to store the mind with a mil­lion facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Aleck Bourne (Hat tip to J. D. Bentley) <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!


To be outstanding – get comfortable with being uncomfortable. - Alrik Koudenburg

To be outstanding – get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Alrik Koudenburg

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  • http://dr1665.com/ Brian Driggs

    Who’s gonna stop me! Awesome!

    • http://michaelschechter.me MSchechter

      That one certainly did the best on Tumblr this week.

      • http://dr1665.com/ Brian Driggs

        Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt. That’s the first thing they teach you.

        • http://michaelschechter.me MSchechter

          I don’t know who “they” are, but they teach some interesting things :)

          • http://dr1665.com/ Brian Driggs

            “‘I don’t remember.’ That’s the second thing they teach you.” 

            It’s the wisdom of Sam, from the movie Ronin, sir. 

            See also:  http://gearboxmagazine.com/2011/06/roninisms-the-wisdom-of-sam/

          • http://michaelschechter.me MSchechter

            All life’s wisdom should come from De Niro.