Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/klphp6u7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
tiny.ag/ef1mcjvo · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
tiny.ag/tde4qweo · ★★☆☆ Fair (247 ratings) · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/aj3tzjw2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
tiny.ag/0rczsoyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
tiny.ag/tf9fn0vv · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
tiny.ag/hk1fnrrg · ★★☆☆ Fair (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
tiny.ag/52bhttiz · ★★☆☆ Fair (694 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yvzq4h9m · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is the evolution of the mind.
tiny.ag/n41eagpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (779 ratings) · submitted 1997
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jpox64sd · ★★☆☆ Fair (774 ratings) · submitted 1997
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/f4ckcyx8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
tiny.ag/zsy8hdo3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure 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/gvfo9jw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (547 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
tiny.ag/wqs4yam6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
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