Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Karl Kraus

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Karl Kraus

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl Kraus

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Karl Kraus

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus