Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
101–120 (328)
tiny.ag/8dhiywlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (458 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not young enough to know everything.
tiny.ag/1bm5oz9e · ★★☆☆ Fair (461 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
tiny.ag/icyaq4sy · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
tiny.ag/lt8nmg5i · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
tiny.ag/1teeow0f · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/g8ncpo30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
tiny.ag/cu6vdywe · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/e9njxakr · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop, III, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/e2icakpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
tiny.ag/rupnqvyt · ★★☆☆ Fair (177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jttv8uoi · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
tiny.ag/if4vw3y9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dkwycxon · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue.
tiny.ag/3laiwzst · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
tiny.ag/kteay1fd · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · ★★☆☆ Fair (350 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/svogwyfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
tiny.ag/uvmow3r4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
tiny.ag/hcrgr6oa · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
101–120 (328)