Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/eqpdfyuw · submitted 1997
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
tiny.ag/rci53dro · submitted 1997
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
tiny.ag/kl2zmoog · submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor
Today's children are required to learn what most people in former times were forbidden to know.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
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/wh6qtopk · submitted 1997
I improve on misquotation.
tiny.ag/ccrfqs3v · submitted 1997
I'm more like I am now than I ever was before.
tiny.ag/6qzazlkw · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
tiny.ag/s0wemj5y · submitted 1997
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
tiny.ag/gbo6vshj · submitted 1997
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
tiny.ag/trlcjdxx · submitted 1997
The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice.
tiny.ag/ldizacqu · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/w4srf1nw · submitted 1997
The world is governed more by appearance than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it.
tiny.ag/kk23yagw · submitted 1997
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
Unknown, (Muslim proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/rlmumka4 · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
The most undependable part on your car is the nut holding the wheel.
tiny.ag/ezridljt · submitted 1997
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
tiny.ag/1iteoxru · submitted 1997
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
tiny.ag/voc2uwcw · submitted 1997
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
tiny.ag/ybv1maqw · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
tiny.ag/hjfwoanr · submitted 1997
Stupidity is also known as a medical disorder known as a rectal-cranial inversion.
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