Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
tiny.ag/fg9hhljz · ★★☆☆ Fair (3686 ratings) · submitted 1997
Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.
tiny.ag/peqmtrl9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
tiny.ag/pojc3ikm · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/1jtdasvn · ★★☆☆ Fair (1273 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3066 ratings) · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qycsaode · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · submitted 1997
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/06lybgnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1998
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/8nji6wzs · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/4hqstejw · ★★☆☆ Fair (348 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper, Conversation, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yvzq4h9m · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is the evolution of the mind.
tiny.ag/n41eagpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (779 ratings) · submitted 1997
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jpox64sd · ★★☆☆ Fair (774 ratings) · submitted 1997
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/htczvg3n · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · ★★☆☆ Fair (300 ratings) · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/xozwtgoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (866 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/f4ckcyx8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
tiny.ag/cmrnisvx · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
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