Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/7andkqlu · submitted 1997
People only see what they are prepared to see.
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/vm35jkqm · submitted 1997
Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.
tiny.ag/abelggxc · submitted 1997
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
tiny.ag/oy08nxhf · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/y5vxd29g · submitted 1997
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
tiny.ag/lnv4og3o · submitted 1998
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
tiny.ag/mrm8ujlt · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/lbtrv5my · submitted 1997
I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
tiny.ag/l0kufav6 · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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