Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anonymous 

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.  - Cat's Cradle

Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility.
Samuel Johnson 

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan 

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frederic Amiel 

Eccentricities of genius.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) 

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
Harry Anderson 

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Konrad Lorenz 

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)