Wisdom and Ignorance

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Robert Jacob Goodkin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I'm more like I am now than I ever was before.

Greg, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Blaise Pascal, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ellen Parr, in Wisdom and Ignorance

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

Dorothy Parker, (when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence), in Wisdom and Ignorance

If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Stanley Garn, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.

Iara Gassen, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier, in Wisdom and Ignorance

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Wisdom and Ignorance

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei, in Wisdom and Ignorance

You can observe a lot by watching.

Yogi Berra, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."

Ambrose Bierce, in Wisdom and Ignorance