Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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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/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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/b8jzieda · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Do two wrongs make a right? Yes. The right to be wrong.
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/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/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/h8oiwuf7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
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/qkrsbfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
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