Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/pizd3ywt · submitted 1997
I hate quotations.
tiny.ag/qn3ryz0y · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
tiny.ag/yoharucr · submitted 1997
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
tiny.ag/7fjtgxm8 · submitted 1997
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · submitted 1997
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge, (on his retirement from Cornell University), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/hnsdx84l · submitted 1997
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
tiny.ag/4agfdmeh · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kmlacltu · submitted 1997
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
tiny.ag/abelggxc · submitted 1997
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
tiny.ag/htczvg3n · submitted 1997
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
tiny.ag/vm35jkqm · submitted 1997
Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/tzkxgb3b · submitted 1997
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
tiny.ag/6rk1jdhd · submitted 1997
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
tiny.ag/b8jzieda · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Do two wrongs make a right? Yes. The right to be wrong.
tiny.ag/fbo95pnn · submitted 1997
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
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/wujpidqy · submitted 1999
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
tiny.ag/52bhttiz · submitted 1997
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
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