Thin Partitions

Great wits are sure to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

John Dryden



Rembrance and reflection
How allied
What thin partitions
Sense from thought divide.

Alexander Pope

Faith

Ideology is a form of brain damage.


Lionel Tiger

What we have to fear.

There is nothng more frightful than ignorance in action.


Goethe

Creativity

Masculinity is the most creative force in history.


Camille Paglia

Education

Human history becomes more and more a race
between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

Conviction

Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

Certainty

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Charles Darwin

Not malice

Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Napolean Bonaparte



or


It's easy to mistake conspiracy for collective stupidity - because the results can be identical.
C W

Religion

Though enemies seek
Summer's cricket must sing.
In sect, we are alike.

Sin

Arrogance is an easy sin,

I, even I,

Have fallen in.