Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/hutuz2wq · ★★☆☆ Fair (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
tiny.ag/ctg0dc6w · ★★☆☆ Fair (877 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson
All generalizations are false, including this one.
tiny.ag/xrmys3sk · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ipsoc5wu · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · ★★☆☆ Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
tiny.ag/s6frnocs · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/cmrnisvx · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
tiny.ag/wujpidqy · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · 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/htczvg3n · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
tiny.ag/abelggxc · ★★☆☆ Fair (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
tiny.ag/vm35jkqm · ★★☆☆ Fair (241 ratings) · submitted 1997
Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.
tiny.ag/kmlacltu · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · 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/losztnwc · ★★☆☆ Fair (499 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/4agfdmeh · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
tiny.ag/hnsdx84l · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · 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/7fjtgxm8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
tiny.ag/yoharucr · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
tiny.ag/qn3ryz0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (408 ratings) · 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/pizd3ywt · ★★☆☆ Fair (473 ratings) · submitted 1997
I hate quotations.
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