It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and undeservedly succeed when the informed and experienced fail.

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.