Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/xz5aiowd · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/0elygtgv · ★★☆☆ Fair (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener, Space, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kqr3auag · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
tiny.ag/qol2sxws · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
tiny.ag/dwmxy2kw · ★★☆☆ Fair (291 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is civil defense against media fallout.
tiny.ag/3zbbml0p · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
tiny.ag/jwespnab · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/7gpwjccm · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
tiny.ag/n5jvquk2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (228 ratings) · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
tiny.ag/bqie1hj5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (651 ratings) · submitted 1998
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
tiny.ag/li6watos · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ejvaborl · ★★☆☆ Fair (259 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
tiny.ag/hmqvyuqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/nolhz29r · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
tiny.ag/hrlrndwx · ★★☆☆ Fair (216 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
tiny.ag/wuzygxbp · ★★☆☆ Fair (135 ratings) · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
tiny.ag/pgdfkoxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
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