Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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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/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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/5l9lxr7a · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
If, while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment is glutted.
tiny.ag/jjws8glu · ★★☆☆ Fair (247 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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/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/7andkqlu · ★★☆☆ Fair (229 ratings) · submitted 1997
People only see what they are prepared to see.
tiny.ag/pizd3ywt · ★★☆☆ Fair (473 ratings) · submitted 1997
I hate quotations.
tiny.ag/qn3ryz0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (408 ratings) · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge, (on his retirement from Cornell University), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/abelggxc · ★★☆☆ Fair (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
tiny.ag/kmlacltu · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
tiny.ag/vm35jkqm · ★★☆☆ Fair (241 ratings) · submitted 1997
Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.
tiny.ag/7fjtgxm8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
tiny.ag/htczvg3n · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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