https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:36:08 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/einstein-albert/35129/ https://wist.info/einstein-albert/35129/#respond Fri, 16 Sep 2016 22:32:24 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35129 Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
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For more discussion about this quote: Quote Origin: Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid – Quote Investigator®. ]]> https://wist.info/einstein-albert/35129/feed/ 0 35129 https://wist.info/rogers-will/28241/ https://wist.info/rogers-will/28241/#respond Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:49:49 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28241 There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1931-07-05), “Weekly Article”
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See also his comment here. ]]> https://wist.info/rogers-will/28241/feed/ 0 28241 https://wist.info/rogers-will/5894/ https://wist.info/rogers-will/5894/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 11:53:13 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5894 You know, Percy, everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1924-08-31), “Weekly Article: From Nuts to Soup”
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A common catch phrase of Rogers'. Collected in The Illiterate Digest, "Defending My Soup Plate Position" (1924). ]]> https://wist.info/rogers-will/5894/feed/ 1 5894