Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/njk4cbzp · submitted 1997
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
tiny.ag/xzi3am2h · submitted 1997
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
tiny.ag/qhswaupg · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
tiny.ag/izsokq3v · submitted 1997
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
tiny.ag/ipsoc5wu · submitted 1997
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
tiny.ag/s6frnocs · submitted 1997
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/63vctqjk · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
tiny.ag/dzuvvei3 · submitted 1997
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
tiny.ag/l0ggy3oy · submitted 1999
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope, (from Golden Treasury of the Familiar), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/psxefgev · submitted 1997
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
tiny.ag/mrepdhu2 · submitted 1997
People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jpv6wv9c · submitted 1997
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/y76kfgou · submitted 1997
They talk most who have the least to say.
tiny.ag/2o4terst · submitted 1999 by LEStephey
A small journey begins with one step and ends with another.
tiny.ag/llsj2qct · submitted 1997
A pseudo-intellectual is a person who knows what "pseudo" means.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/ijzxqrho · submitted 1997
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
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