Famous quotes containing the words smart and/or background:
“He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)