Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/q2cvf8pi · ★★☆☆ Fair (391 ratings) · submitted 1997
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
tiny.ag/6lar7dwe · ★★☆☆ Fair (870 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
tiny.ag/oujwgybq · ★★☆☆ Fair (355 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is educated insolence.
tiny.ag/6hcujeiu · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · ★★☆☆ Fair (555 ratings) · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/2ljggwxr · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes, The Birds, 414 B.C., in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dc6pcq9o · ★★☆☆ Fair (425 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
tiny.ag/klphp6u7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
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