Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/c9ykbift · ★★☆☆ Fair (769 ratings) · submitted 1997
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
tiny.ag/0hselcjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (484 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
tiny.ag/hksesmq7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · 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.
tiny.ag/chnlsua0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
tiny.ag/sutptyxa · ★★☆☆ Fair (19 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
tiny.ag/y7qkjsrf · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/y0inete4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
tiny.ag/sefftpkt · ★★☆☆ Fair (150 ratings) · submitted 1997
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/tzkxgb3b · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
tiny.ag/6rk1jdhd · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
tiny.ag/b8jzieda · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Do two wrongs make a right? Yes. The right to be wrong.
tiny.ag/fbo95pnn · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
tiny.ag/syqg9cuz · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
tiny.ag/slywabar · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only the educated are free.
tiny.ag/k0emebpg · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · ★★☆☆ Fair (280 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/7andkqlu · ★★☆☆ Fair (229 ratings) · submitted 1997
People only see what they are prepared to see.
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