Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/4ezjejb0 · submitted 1997
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
tiny.ag/l0kufav6 · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
tiny.ag/wirqwxvl · submitted 1997
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
tiny.ag/viymqgdo · submitted 1997
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
tiny.ag/wonmj58n · submitted 1999 by David B. Cole, Jr.
Reality is subordinate to perception.
tiny.ag/1b7ttrhh · submitted 1997
We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't.
tiny.ag/bqie1hj5 · submitted 1998
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
tiny.ag/gvfo9jw1 · submitted 1997
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
tiny.ag/li6watos · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ejvaborl · submitted 1997
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
tiny.ag/hmqvyuqz · submitted 1997
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
tiny.ag/bku8tth7 · submitted 1997
If we are the only intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a finite number of idiots.
tiny.ag/knybox5w · submitted 1997
Style is an easy way of saying complicated things.
tiny.ag/hsipkpnw · submitted 1997
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
tiny.ag/o7ofzkdq · submitted 1997
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
tiny.ag/mwma270i · submitted 1997
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read.
Unknown, (Japanese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/eanvvuth · submitted 1997
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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