Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/kteay1fd · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
tiny.ag/g8ncpo30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · ★★☆☆ Fair (350 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
tiny.ag/bucadpxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
tiny.ag/r0a9zwmr · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
tiny.ag/byjgwlzg · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
tiny.ag/uvmow3r4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
tiny.ag/svogwyfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/hcrgr6oa · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
tiny.ag/1teeow0f · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hevntg1m · ★★☆☆ Fair (160 ratings) · submitted 1997
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/e7pa2qtv · ★★☆☆ Fair (554 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dflvnw5h · ★★☆☆ Fair (438 ratings) · submitted 1997
I was asked by the customs if I had anything to declare. I said: Yes, I'd like to declare -- I'm a genius!
tiny.ag/8dhiywlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (458 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not young enough to know everything.
tiny.ag/icyaq4sy · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
tiny.ag/lt8nmg5i · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
tiny.ag/1bm5oz9e · ★★☆☆ Fair (461 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
tiny.ag/zsy8hdo3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
tiny.ag/tde4qweo · ★★☆☆ Fair (247 ratings) · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
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