February 17, 2012

What Do You Know?



"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense."


Benjamin Franklin
18th century American statesman

Another exhortation to not confuse education with intelligence, or certainly common sense.

2 comments :

  1. Politics is where you see this most often. People react more to the delivery of the message rather than the message itself, and pay the price later in the form of poor representation.

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  2. and since there is politics in business, it's there too.

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