Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
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tiny.ag/lkf1oudx · ★★☆☆ Fair (79 ratings) · submitted 1997
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
tiny.ag/st9mqgf5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jp6bkest · ★★☆☆ Fair (326 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
tiny.ag/fg9hhljz · ★★☆☆ Fair (3686 ratings) · submitted 1997
Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.
tiny.ag/peqmtrl9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
tiny.ag/pojc3ikm · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · ★★☆☆ Fair (300 ratings) · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/xozwtgoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (866 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/8nji6wzs · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/z1auvpyn · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
tiny.ag/xzi3am2h · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
tiny.ag/ls0zmykb · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Mark Dawson
However hot the water is, the fire still goes out.
tiny.ag/xjb1ypdu · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/njk4cbzp · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
tiny.ag/qhswaupg · ★★☆☆ Fair (1040 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
tiny.ag/izsokq3v · ★★☆☆ Fair (96 ratings) · submitted 1997
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
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