Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/njk4cbzp · submitted 1997
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
tiny.ag/xzi3am2h · submitted 1997
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
tiny.ag/llsj2qct · submitted 1997
A pseudo-intellectual is a person who knows what "pseudo" means.
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
tiny.ag/s6frnocs · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/63vctqjk · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
tiny.ag/dzuvvei3 · submitted 1997
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
tiny.ag/l0ggy3oy · submitted 1999
'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
tiny.ag/psxefgev · submitted 1997
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
tiny.ag/mrepdhu2 · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/qhswaupg · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
tiny.ag/izsokq3v · submitted 1997
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/2o4terst · submitted 1999 by LEStephey
A small journey begins with one step and ends with another.
tiny.ag/8egicznw · submitted 1997
You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.
tiny.ag/l2qkzwis · submitted 1997
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/pwxgqowu · submitted 1997
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
tiny.ag/mfx0o8sc · submitted 1997
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
tiny.ag/h2rdoaxw · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
tiny.ag/pdln3czv · submitted 1997
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker, (when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence), in Wisdom and Ignorance
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