Quote

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
Teacher
Vancouver
British Columbia
Laurence Johnston Peter
Laurence Peter
Armor
Ignorant
Logic
Ignorance
Like

More quotes by Laurence J. Peter

Image
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
The unexpected always happens.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
An optimist expects his dreams to come true a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
Laurence J. Peter
Image
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
Laurence J. Peter
Image
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
Laurence J. Peter