Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/1jtdasvn · submitted 1997
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
tiny.ag/asaliq9g · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hyedkhd2 · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
tiny.ag/yamidgsg · submitted 1999
Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.
tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/9exonkwl · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
tiny.ag/wgyfgj8m · submitted 1997
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/z0pv1omm · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/hsbozuvd · submitted 1997
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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/1bbjwdu7 · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/bza7uu5d · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
Jorge Luis Borges, "El informe de Brodie", in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kiytmq1q · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors... Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote but has the decency of not publishing.
tiny.ag/wagakfth · submitted 1999
Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/inomue9p · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
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