Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/pxfadpln · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
tiny.ag/g8ncpo30 · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
tiny.ag/as0knvco · submitted 1997
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
tiny.ag/njl5gsre · submitted 1997
Live to learn... forget... and learn again.
tiny.ag/slupay0r · submitted 1997
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
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/wvfixygn · submitted 1997
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.
tiny.ag/s2pjkz1e · submitted 1997
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/5hbi0ras · submitted 1997
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/jttv8uoi · submitted 1997
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/3laiwzst · submitted 1997
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
tiny.ag/dkwycxon · submitted 1997
Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue.
tiny.ag/if4vw3y9 · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/tf9fn0vv · submitted 1997
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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