Quotes on "E"

EDITOR

An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to.
Gene Fowler

EDUCATION

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel De Montaigne

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas

ENEMIES

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
Heinrich Heine

Bernard Shaw has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde

EQUALITY

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore De Balzac

That all men are created equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley

EXISTENCE

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appaling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp

EXPERIENCE

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

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