Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
~ Albert Einstein

You wouldn’t believe how stupid the average person is. And worse than that, half the people are even stupider than THAT!
~ George Carlin

Yes, it’s been observed for centuries that it’s the truly stupid who are the most successful, live the longest, are the happiest, the wealthiest, the most desirable, and so on. Lets face it: It’s the stupid who have an inside track in this world.
~ Ann Coulter

People who are far from God think they are very near to him, when they begin to take a few steps to approach him. The most polite and most enlightened people have the same stupidity about this as a peasant who thinks he is really at court, because he has seen the king. We leave the horrible vices; we restrain ourselves in a weak, worldly and dissipated life. We judge it, not by the Gospel, which is the only rule, but by the comparison which we make between that life and the one which we led before, or which we see led by som many others. No more is needed to canonize ourselves, and to go sound asleep so far as everything goes which has to do with our salvation.”
~ Fenelon, in Christian Perfection

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
~ in Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1867

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
~ in Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1867

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

The strength and the happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way, too.

Troubles are the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

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Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
~ Henry Ward Beecher, in Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1867

When I am asked a question
Here is the way things go:
I give a lengthy answer
Before saying, “I don’t know.”
~ Joshua Adams

Apathy and ignorance are the worst forms of bondage for man; they are the invisible walls of confinement that we carry round us when we are in their grip.
~ Rabindranath Tagore, in “A Poet’s School” in Rabindranath Tagore: Pioneer in Education, Essays and Exchanges between Rabindranath Tagore and L.k. Elmhirst (London: John Murray, 1961), p. 64

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Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.