Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/gvfo9jw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (547 ratings) · 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/wqs4yam6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
tiny.ag/rv5rwqlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1998
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/v1hbaimf · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
tiny.ag/okwhuss2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
tiny.ag/ultj3i4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
tiny.ag/gesq5cpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/satkf7ke · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
tiny.ag/hcrgr6oa · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
tiny.ag/psxefgev · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
tiny.ag/mrepdhu2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (366 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jpv6wv9c · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/y76kfgou · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
They talk most who have the least to say.
tiny.ag/ijzxqrho · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/kjdwev6x · ★★☆☆ Fair (851 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Mark Richards
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.
tiny.ag/hlnxvxip · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/dy2zaj4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
tiny.ag/kqr3auag · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
tiny.ag/daezmd7g · ★★☆☆ Fair (277 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
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