Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/z0pv1omm · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/juocdkwi · submitted 1997
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
tiny.ag/5jqhurzz · submitted 1997
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
tiny.ag/hsbozuvd · submitted 1997
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/zzbstsyk · submitted 1997
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
tiny.ag/qwlnrjbr · submitted 1997
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
tiny.ag/uejht2oo · submitted 1997
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/jjws8glu · submitted 1997
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
tiny.ag/5l9lxr7a · 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/slywabar · submitted 1997
Only the educated are free.
tiny.ag/syqg9cuz · submitted 1997
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
tiny.ag/fbo95pnn · submitted 1997
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
tiny.ag/b8jzieda · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Do two wrongs make a right? Yes. The right to be wrong.
tiny.ag/6rk1jdhd · submitted 1997
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
tiny.ag/tzkxgb3b · submitted 1997
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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