“The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.”

“A page of history is worth a volume of logic.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

“Despite evidence to the contrary (and there is enough of it to fill many volumes), there is still a widespread notion...that flying saucers are some kind of American joke..that the mystery has already been cleared up...and that there is nothing more to worry about.”

George Adamski (1891–1965) American ufologist

“History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“In Torrens, Life of Lord Melbourne, Volume I, p. 320, and in Walpole's History of England from Conclusion of the Great War, Volume III, p. 143.”

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848) British Whig statesman

“To maintain and continue a high volume of flow demanded organizational innovation. It would be achieved only by creating an administrative hierarchy operated by many full-time salaried managers.”

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007) American historian

“There are dignified stupidities, and there are heroic stupidities, and there is such a thing as stupid stupidities, and that would be a stupid stupidity not to have a camera on board.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

“He's a highly talented guy. He does very good movies and he's not the sort of person who always talks bullshit. He does many, many things right. But he's also sick. Obsessed. He wants to make history, not movies. Anyone who wants to make history is stupid.”

Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) German actor

“Wittgenstein expressed more than once the fear that his writings would be destroyed by fire. He related with horror how the great historian, Mommsen, had lost a manuscript volume of his History of Rome in that way.”

Norman Malcolm (1911–1990) American philosopher

“Too many stupid people have it.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director