Wisdom and Ignorance

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt, in Wisdom and Ignorance

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, in Wisdom and Ignorance

No one wants a good education, but everyone wants a good degree.

Lee Rudolph, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell, in Wisdom and Ignorance

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

George Santiano, in Wisdom and Ignorance

When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.

Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anaïs Nin, in Happiness and Misery and Wisdom and Ignorance

We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Anaïs Nin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in Wisdom and Ignorance

You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.

George Orwell, in Wisdom and Ignorance

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

Dorothy Parker, (when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence), in Wisdom and Ignorance

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ellen Parr, in Wisdom and Ignorance

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Blaise Pascal, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Wendell Phillips, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso, in 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

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Plato, in Wisdom and Ignorance