Bits Quote by Paula Poundstone

“If they’re forced into a challenge they don’t feel prepared for, they may even engage in what psychologists call “self-handicapping”: deliberately doing things that…

— Megan McArdle

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only…

— James Surowiecki

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

— Mason Cooley

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert…

— Charles Darwin

“Granted that I know little of my real self, still, I am the best evidence for myself. And though, when I have quitted this…

— Anonymous

Learning is realizing you know so little that you become so eager to fill it up.

— Terry Mark

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

— Rudyard Kipling

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

— F. Sionil Jose

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we…

— Bertrand Russell

So I think I know a little bit about winning, if there's ever a concern.

— Kevin Lowe

..to know a little about a lot.

— Anonymous

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

— Oliver North