Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/9exonkwl · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yamidgsg · submitted 1999
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.
tiny.ag/hyedkhd2 · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/to1nvxvz · submitted 1997
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ijzxqrho · submitted 1997
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/mrepdhu2 · submitted 1997
People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jpv6wv9c · submitted 1997
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/90upthng · submitted 1999
If you're here, you're alive.
tiny.ag/psxefgev · submitted 1997
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
tiny.ag/l0ggy3oy · submitted 1999
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope, (from Golden Treasury of the Familiar), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/63vctqjk · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
tiny.ag/y76kfgou · submitted 1997
They talk most who have the least to say.
tiny.ag/dzuvvei3 · submitted 1997
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
tiny.ag/xrmys3sk · submitted 1997
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
tiny.ag/ipsoc5wu · submitted 1997
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
tiny.ag/s6frnocs · submitted 1997
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance
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