Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/b8pl5th4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
tiny.ag/zwsbjgio · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · 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."
tiny.ag/qe3bg8q5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
tiny.ag/egvuw4ni · ★★☆☆ Fair (852 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
tiny.ag/bague6sg · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · 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/jdfanm7k · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · 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/23goyhuk · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
tiny.ag/6pua1ipj · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
tiny.ag/6b9j37a4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (528 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.
tiny.ag/bdh0f7mw · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
tiny.ag/np6qfeud · ★★☆☆ Fair (414 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything we really need to know we learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hsbozuvd · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1554 ratings) · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/zzbstsyk · ★★☆☆ Fair (275 ratings) · submitted 1997
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
tiny.ag/qwlnrjbr · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
tiny.ag/oayda2mh · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
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/0hselcjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (484 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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/sr7yv9lh · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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