Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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321–328 (328)
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/jwespnab · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
tiny.ag/3zbbml0p · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
tiny.ag/dwmxy2kw · ★★☆☆ Fair (291 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is civil defense against media fallout.
tiny.ag/qol2sxws · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
tiny.ag/kqr3auag · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
tiny.ag/0elygtgv · ★★☆☆ Fair (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener, Space, in Wisdom and Ignorance
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