You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

—Laurence J. Peter

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

—Laurence J. Peter

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

—Laurence J. Peter

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself… The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

—Laurence J. Peter

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

—Laurence J. Peter

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

—Henrik Tikkanen

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

—Harriet Martineau

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

—George Bernard Shaw

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

—G. H. Hardy

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

—Don Herold