Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/q7oo4vdf · submitted 1997
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
tiny.ag/oayda2mh · submitted 1997
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
tiny.ag/zwsbjgio · submitted 1997
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow."
tiny.ag/qe3bg8q5 · submitted 1997
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
tiny.ag/kjdwev6x · submitted 1999 by Mark Richards
I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.
tiny.ag/hlnxvxip · submitted 1997
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
tiny.ag/slupay0r · submitted 1997
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
tiny.ag/njl5gsre · submitted 1997
Live to learn... forget... and learn again.
tiny.ag/pxfadpln · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/6wydulw8 · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
tiny.ag/9exonkwl · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/hyedkhd2 · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dc6pcq9o · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
tiny.ag/to1nvxvz · submitted 1997
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
tiny.ag/evgupvn3 · submitted 1997
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
tiny.ag/khtxcyl0 · submitted 1997
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
tiny.ag/q2cvf8pi · submitted 1997
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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