Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
tiny.ag/wirqwxvl · submitted 1997
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
tiny.ag/e7pa2qtv · submitted 1997
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dflvnw5h · submitted 1997
I was asked by the customs if I had anything to declare. I said: Yes, I'd like to declare -- I'm a genius!
tiny.ag/8dhiywlp · submitted 1997
I am not young enough to know everything.
tiny.ag/1bm5oz9e · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
tiny.ag/icyaq4sy · submitted 1997
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
tiny.ag/lt8nmg5i · submitted 1997
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
tiny.ag/1teeow0f · submitted 1997
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mmclufba · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/o1adwrjp · submitted 1997
Never forget what you need to remember.
tiny.ag/9bdy4k6s · submitted 1997
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
tiny.ag/4mch5yty · submitted 1997
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
tiny.ag/mgn8bwur · submitted 1997
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
tiny.ag/r0a9zwmr · submitted 1997
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
tiny.ag/byjgwlzg · submitted 1997
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
tiny.ag/uvmow3r4 · submitted 1997
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/svogwyfm · submitted 1997
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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