Wisdom and Ignorance
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tiny.ag/hlnxvxip · submitted 1997
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
tiny.ag/dy2zaj4v · submitted 1997
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
tiny.ag/qy4zssfi · submitted 1997
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
tiny.ag/wf0milq1 · submitted 1997
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
tiny.ag/yxk2wmee · submitted 1997
No one wants a good education, but everyone wants a good degree.
tiny.ag/oayda2mh · submitted 1997
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
tiny.ag/kiytmq1q · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors... Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote but has the decency of not publishing.
tiny.ag/pojc3ikm · submitted 1997
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
tiny.ag/peqmtrl9 · submitted 1997
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
tiny.ag/fg9hhljz · submitted 1997
Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.
tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
tiny.ag/bague6sg · submitted 1997
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
tiny.ag/egvuw4ni · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
tiny.ag/q7oo4vdf · submitted 1997
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
tiny.ag/kjdwev6x · submitted 1999 by Mark Richards
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.
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qe3bg8q5 · submitted 1997
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
tiny.ag/jdfanm7k · submitted 1998
Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.
tiny.ag/zwsbjgio · submitted 1997
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow."
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