Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/2o4terst · submitted 1999 by LEStephey
A small journey begins with one step and ends with another.
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/lt8nmg5i · submitted 1997
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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/1bm5oz9e · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
tiny.ag/8dhiywlp · submitted 1997
I am not young enough to know everything.
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/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
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