Wisdom and Ignorance

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

 Benjamin Franklin, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

 Groucho Marx, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

 Unknown, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.

 Karl Marx, in  Law and Politics and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

 Plato, The Republic, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

 Jorge Luis Borges, "El informe de Brodie", in  Wisdom and Ignorance

The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.

 Unknown, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

We must become the change we want to see.

 Mahatma Gandhi, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow."

 Anne Hunninghake, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

A pseudo-intellectual is a person who knows what "pseudo" means.

 Unknown, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

 Aristotle, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Sharks mainly attack when your're wet.

 Unknown, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Reality is subordinate to perception.

 David B. Cole, Jr., in  Wisdom and Ignorance

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

 Unknown, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.

 David Knight, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.

 Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Today's children are required to learn what most people in former times were forbidden to know.

 Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in  Wisdom and Ignorance

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.

 Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in  Wisdom and Ignorance

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

 Alexander Pope, (from Golden Treasury of the Familiar), in  Wisdom and Ignorance

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

 Mark Richards, in  Wisdom and Ignorance