Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/inomue9p · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/cnifx1o4 · submitted 1997
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/ed9aels7 · submitted 1997
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
tiny.ag/cgydzmit · submitted 1997
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
tiny.ag/knybox5w · submitted 1997
Style is an easy way of saying complicated things.
tiny.ag/wonmj58n · submitted 1999 by David B. Cole, Jr.
Reality is subordinate to perception.
tiny.ag/4ezjejb0 · submitted 1997
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
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