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Wisdom and Ignorance
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely. [Select] Godfried Bomans: De avonturen van Bill Clifford {Also in: Science and Religion} Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child. [Select] Godfried Bomans: Buitelingen II {Also in: Science and Religion} The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. [Select] It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first. [Select] Les Barker: An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables {Also in: Success and Failure} In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything. [Select] Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com) "Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." [Select] Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Shop] An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means. [Select] The dead and the stupid never change their opinions. [Select] Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you. [Select] There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless. [Select] Jorge Luis Borges: "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote" {Also in: Art and Literature} My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges. [Select] Jorge Luis Borges: "El informe de Brodie" Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom. [Select] The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. [Select] A small journey begins with one step and ends with another. [Select] One thing is one thing. Another thing is another thing. [Select] If you're here, you're alive. [Select] Unknown {Also in: Life and Death} Reality is something you rise above. [Select] 'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. [Select] Alexander Pope (from Golden Treasury of the Familiar) I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is. [Select] All generalizations are false, including this one. [Select]
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