Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.