Nonexperts Quotes & Sayings

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas. — Burt Prelutsky

There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees. — Benjamin Graham

Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. — John Milton

Experts see the world differently. They notice things that nonexperts don't see. They home in on the information that matters most, and have an almost automatic sense of what to do with it. — Joshua Foer

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. — Karl Popper

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death. — Jean Genet

In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers. — Maurice Allais

The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All. — Thomas Merton

But you know exactly what kind of world we live in. It ain't no fucking Middle-earth. — Junot Diaz

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country. — Marco Rubio

Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment. — Simon Boylan

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it. — Anne Sullivan Macy