"Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt."

~Abraham Lincoln

"Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an unbelievable breakthrough."

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled!"  

Attributed to Mark Twain

"A man who believes everything knows nothing."

Schopenhauer said of Napoleon:

“He was possessed of the very ordinary egoism that seeks its welfare at the expense of others. What distinguished him was merely the greater power he had of satisfying his will.”