Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/ow2rizet · ★★☆☆ Fair (1056 ratings) · submitted 1998
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
tiny.ag/kl2zmoog · ★★☆☆ Fair (1000 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor
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
tiny.ag/rci53dro · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
tiny.ag/eqpdfyuw · ★★☆☆ Fair (865 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
tiny.ag/soebrnq6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (286 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ajjiywbg · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
tiny.ag/hczjqg3z · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · ★★☆☆ Fair (310 ratings) · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/ieyckbys · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/gesq5cpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
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/okwhuss2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
tiny.ag/uejht2oo · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/z0pv1omm · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · ★★☆☆ Fair (3086 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/juocdkwi · ★★☆☆ Fair (869 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
tiny.ag/5jqhurzz · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
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