Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/aj3tzjw2 · submitted 1997
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
tiny.ag/ef1mcjvo · submitted 1997
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
tiny.ag/hk1fnrrg · submitted 1997
The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
tiny.ag/tf9fn0vv · submitted 1997
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
tiny.ag/0rczsoyu · submitted 1997
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · submitted 1997
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
tiny.ag/jp6bkest · submitted 1997
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · 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/gesq5cpw · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/ultj3i4v · submitted 1997
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
tiny.ag/okwhuss2 · submitted 1997
A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
tiny.ag/v1hbaimf · submitted 1997
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
tiny.ag/rv5rwqlp · 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/wqs4yam6 · 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/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/bqie1hj5 · submitted 1998
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
tiny.ag/hksesmq7 · submitted 1997
Education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
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