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Laurence J. Peter
September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Writer
Subcategory: Canadian Writer

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

   

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

   

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

   

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

   

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

   

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

   

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

   

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

   

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

   

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

   

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

   

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

   

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

   

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

   

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

   

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

   

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

   

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

   

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

   

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

   

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