Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/hutuz2wq · ★★☆☆ Fair (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
tiny.ag/pdln3czv · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker, (when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/8egicznw · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.
tiny.ag/b1luxoq2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (297 ratings) · submitted 1997
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
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/kqr3auag · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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/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/uxa3t4kn · ★★☆☆ Fair (784 ratings) · submitted 1999
Reality is something you rise above.
tiny.ag/daezmd7g · ★★☆☆ Fair (277 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
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/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/l2qkzwis · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/pwxgqowu · ★★☆☆ Fair (493 ratings) · submitted 1997
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
tiny.ag/mfx0o8sc · ★★☆☆ Fair (528 ratings) · submitted 1997
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
tiny.ag/h2rdoaxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (289 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
tiny.ag/8gzg3rxx · ★★☆☆ Fair (32 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?
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