„Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more.“

— Terry Pratchett

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„I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded as irrelevant and useless. If you can measure it, don't. If you can weigh it, it isn't worth the bother. It isn't what you're after. It isn't going to get it. My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision. I looked, I saw, I understood, I felt, "That's that, where do we go from here?"“
— William Saroyan
„A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'… and the other twenty percent isn't very important.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.“
— H.L. Mencken