Wisdom and Ignorance

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Plato, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Plato, in Wisdom and Ignorance

'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

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

Colin Powell, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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