Wisdom and Ignorance

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tiny.ag/s6frnocs · 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.

tiny.ag/63vctqjk · submitted 1997

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

tiny.ag/dzuvvei3 · submitted 1997

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

tiny.ag/l0ggy3oy · submitted 1999

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope, (from Golden Treasury of the Familiar), in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/psxefgev · submitted 1997

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

tiny.ag/mrepdhu2 · submitted 1997

People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.

Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/l2qkzwis · submitted 1997

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

tiny.ag/8egicznw · submitted 1997

You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.

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